Island Of The Blue Dolphins

O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. New York: Dell Yearling Books, (1960) 1987.
184 pages; Edgeworn and rubbed, no spine creases. ; <B>The story of Karana, an Indian girl that lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. This is a fictional retelling of an actual 19th century event. A Newbery Award winner; highly recommended. </B>. 0440439884.

Softcover; Trade PB, Very Good.

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O'Dell, Scott . ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS . 1990 .
O'Dell, Scott. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1990. later printing. 181pp. illustrated in color Ted Lewin. Imperial 8vo. new in d/w,22.00. .

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Shaw, Irwin. IN THE COMPANY OF DOLPHINS. NY Bernard Geis 1964,,
Stated First Printing . 154pp. 8vo . Blue cloth spine w/bright silver spine lettering. Top edge blue, Map endpapers. . TRAVEL. With wife and son, he chartered a yacht, captained by a veteran deep-water Scot, with 1 deckhand (a vacationing ballelrina) . They sailed the Mediterranean coasts of France and Italy, rounded the boot and c rossed the Adriatic to the island sof Greece and Yugoslavia, ending at Venice. Date in ink on front flyleaf. DW is sun-browned in part with minor edge wear. VG / G +.

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I. Vingopoulou: Aegean Ex Altis - Aerial Photos, Athens: Miletos 2008 ISBN: 9789604640492

Harcover, 37 cm, 337 pp., ill. Myth and history lose themselves in the limitless blue of the sea. The Aegean, the cradle of civilization! Whichever of its local waters today's seafarer traverses-Myrtoan,Thracian, Icarian, Cretan, or Kanpathian, there will come to mind gods, heroes, and nymphs, the very stuff of Greek myth and folktale down the ages.The Aegean is arguably the most fascinating stretch of water in the Mediterranean, to judge by its tributes from poets. Its seven island chains are a unique piece of Nature's architecture, thoughtfully bestowed on Greece by the gods to grace their native land. Reams could be written about it, but one need only remember that poetry flourished in its aquatic environment, from Geometric times onwards, far more intensely than in other regions of the Greek world. Homer was, they say, an Aegean. As our cultural heritage, a bridge between past and present, the Aegean archipelago is a fixed point of reference for us all. In this book, "Aegean ex altis", we adopt a poetic approach designed to show the reader how aerial views enable him or her to appreciate more fully the tints of blue, the bone-white houses, the chapels, the beaches (empty or crowded), the white of marble in the sunlight, the cliffs, the bare rock, the riparian vegetation, and the growing plants on the upland plains.The Dodecanese, the Cyclades, the Sporades and the northern shores of Crete have all been scanned by the camera lens, trapping them in a moment of time, uniquely and enigmatically, full of the mystery contained in the harmonious symbiosis of the past with the present. In the words of the great early nineteenth century Greek poet Kalvos: Fragranf and fresh/isles of the Aegean Sea,/ o happy earth/ where peace and joy/ for ever dwell. Yiannis Yannelos took his camera into the air to show the much-photographed Aegean from a novel angle, then he let the images converse with each other, playing with chance similarities. He matches a church dome on Ios to a mosque dome on Rhodes, and the shapes in a tilled field on Tilos to those in an abandoned village on Folegandros. A windsurfer cutting a curve in a wave at Maleme, Crete, is the reverse image of a sandy promontory on Patmos. Ex Altis celebrates the Aegean: the sheer beauty and variety of the sea itself and the creatures that live in and off it: dolphins leaping, gulls whirling; and the craft that ply its waters: fishing dinghies and trawlers, pleasure boats and massive ferries. Richard Witt has done an excellent job of translating Ioli Vingopoulou's fanciful captions as well as excerpts from poems by writers including Seferis and Elytis, and traditional and contemporary songs. // Postage is not included in the price. We advice customers to ask before ordering the cost of shipment (send e-mail to siatras@hotmail.com), otherwise the cost of priority air mail will be ended to the cost of the book. Condition: Brand new

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