Mike Robinson

A yacht cruising the South Pacific is pulled through a strange corridor of fog. On the other side, the crew find themselves on the shores of an extraordinary island, a monstrous place of dinosaurs and terrifying creatures that should not exist in this world.Sierra Nevada Smith was always chasing monsters, whether through the pages of her favorite books or in the films of legendary stop-motion animator Russell Boylan. Now those monsters are all too real and to survive she will need that knowledge to learn the secrets of this mysterious Monster Island.

Monster Island

Dreamshores

When a bestselling author ends up dead at his rival's home, an investigation is launched into their dark past, revealing a series of troubling stories from their childhood, adolescence, and careers, throughout which pervades a sinister presenceNan authorial entity with roots beyond time or dimension.

The Green-Eyed Monster

J P Barnett

A Creature Feature Horror Suspense

The Witch of Gray's Point

The Haunt at Hogg Run

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It had come back. It had come back and it was stronger ... In 1988, young American traveler Quincy Redding is trekking across the misty terrain of the Cairngorms, in the Scottish Highlands. She is destined for the infamous peak Ben MacDui, where she soon finds herself debilitated ... and at the mercy of a malevolent entity. A darkly imaginative and harrowing tale, Prince of Earth spans twenty years, alternately following Quincy in her 1988 ordeal in Scotland as well as Quincy in 2008, when, as an adult, she begins experiencing strangeness that threatens her family and her life. Strangeness that may be related to what happened all those years ago. "Awesome...A must read for paranormal lovers." -Writer of Wrongs Blog "Amazing prose and emotional imagery...really speaks to something primal in us." -James Wymore, bestselling author of Theocracide and Fractured Earth "A great read." -Justin Robinson-Prickett [no relation], author of Everyman and Mr. Blank "Wow. Thrilling, chilling...one heck of a ride." -Cyn, Top Reviewer, Vine Voice MORE PRAISE FOR "THE PRINCE OF EARTH" "...a horror story in the truest sense, but not one filled with gore and mayhem. No zombies or vampires live within these pages, although there are pages alive with monstrous activities. Here, the reader will deal with the very core of what is or is not humane in the essence of one's character." - Vitina Molgaard, HorrorNovelReviews.com "Robinson has a way of startling even those who think they can't be surprised by a plot twist or tangle. The subtleties with which he conveys profound images, thoughts or ideas are often so skillfully crafted, readers will find themselves going back to re-read things just so they can enjoy them a second time. ... A fine mastery of the literary craft." - Catherine Cruzan, author, Elfkind PRAISE FOR MIKE ROBINSON "One of the best voices in speculative fiction today." - Leslie Ann Moore, bestselling author of the Griffin's Daughter trilogy "A fine writer, with an enviable gift for the poetic turn of phrase." - Kitty Burns Florey, author of Solos and The Writing Master "Put Mike Robinson on your list of authors to watch!" - Guy Anthony de Marco, Bram Stoker Award Finalist "Mike Robinson does not write casual books. His words are intentional and layered and ... there is something so beautiful about them. These are stories that draw you in and make you think. Force you to think." - Vicki Trask, Goodreads book blogger

The Prince of Earth

When a new victim of a vicious serial killer turns up in the woods by Twilight Falls, detective Derek Adams reunites with "The Human Master Key" to probe the occult lore surrounding the town.

A Chilling Tale of Terror

Waking Gods

Bruce Robinson

The Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path together form the 93-mile National Trail that starts near Knettishall in the Brecklands on the Norfolk-Suffolk border and runs north-west to meet the shores of the Wash near Hunstanton before turning east to follow the beautiful North Norfolk coastline to Cromer. The first part of the route, The Peddars Way, follows the route of a Roman road, running arrow-straight along the chalk ridge of north-west Norfolk; the Norfolk Coast Path, in contrast, follows the seawall along the beaches and around the muddy creeks that form a coastline that is home to some of the most famous and spectacular nature reserves in the country. This is the complete, official guide to the entire route for both the long-distance walker and the weekend stroller.

Peddars Way and the Norfolk Coast Path

Philip Long

Using a wide range of international cases from a diverse range of festival and events this back provides critical perspectives on the marketing, management and evaluation of festivals and their complex and dynamic relationships with tourism and tourists.

Marketing, Management and Evaluation

Festivals and Tourism

Maria Gravari-Barbas

Laurent Bourdeau

Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage status brings a new dimension to the functioning of local communities and particularly through tourism. Too many tourists accentuated by the World Heritage label, or in some cases not enough tourists, despite anticipation of increased numbers, can act to disrupt and disturb relations within a community and between communities. Either way, tourism can be seen as a form of activity that can generate interest and concern as it is played out within World Heritage Sites. But the relationships that World Heritage Sites and their consequent tourism share with communities are not just a function of the number of tourists. The relationships are complex and ever changing as the communities themselves change and are built upon long-standing and wider contextual factors that stretch beyond tourism. This volume, drawing upon a wide range of international cases relating to some 33 World Heritage Sites, reveals the multiple dimensions of the relations that exist between the sites and local communities. The designation of the sites can create, obscure and heighten the power relations between different parts of a community, between different communities and between the tourism and the heritage sector. Increasingly, the management of World Heritage is not only about the management of buildings and landscapes but about managing the communities that live and work in or near them.

Global and Local Relations

World Heritage Sites and Tourism

Bryan Miller

The newest novel from Troy Aaron Ratliff and the start of a brand-new trilogySomething Found: A Coin is the perfect beach read filled with "density and texture that will touch readers on an emotional and visual level" but still leave them out of breath and gasping with action, heart, and a tropical calling for adventure.Local Artist and so-called "Selfless Scavenger" Todd Freeman may have a seemingly idyllic life painting and scouring the Key West sands with his metal detector and returning lost items to grateful locals and tourists. Yet, his past holds grief and pain: the death of his son, the swift end of his marriage, and the tumultuous period that saw him uprooting from his Midwestern home and starting anew, under the South Florida sun. But he never expected, in his routine beach-scouring, to find the mysterious little coin -- a coin that would set him on an adventure that he never could've imagined. One that would unveil a legend primed to change the world, and rewrite history. With violent pursuers on his tail and bullets flying, Todd finds himself plunged into an incredible quest that will help him not only uncover one of the greatest mysteries of all time, but test his own strength and bravery to a point he never thought was possible. Something Found: A Coin is the beginning of an adventure that will set your sails for the Floridian tropics and your heart for the grand unknown.***What readers are saying about Something Found: A Coin★★★★★ "...descriptive and provoking; a great beginning for a series." - Reader's Favorite reviewer Peggy★★★★★ "Troy Aaron Ratliff's Something Found: A Coin is a grand and compelling story that kept me on the edge of my seat and absolutely loving every minute I spent reading it." - Reader's Favorite reviewer Jack★★★★★ "Troy Aaron Ratliff has crafted a hurricane of a novel that puts readers through their paces with high-octane action and plenty of thrills and spills." - Reader's Favorite reviewer K.C.AUTHOR BIO Troy Aaron Ratliff returns with his first novel in seven years and the start of a brand new trilogy. When he's not writing, Troy is also an accomplished professional artist.

A Coin

Something Found

David Picard

What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment? What are the inner contours of tourist experience and how does it relate to specific emotional cultures? What are the consequences of the emotional cultures of tourists upon destinations? How are differences in emotional culture mobilized and played out in the transnational contact zones of international tourism? While many books have engaged with the structural frames of tourist practice and experience, this is the first to deal with the emotional dimensions of tourism, travel and contact and the ways in which they can transform tourists, destinations and travel cultures through emotional engagements. The book brings together an international array of scholars from anthropology, psychiatry, history, cultural geography and critical tourism studies to explore how the movement to, and through, the realms of exotic people, wild natures, subliminal art, spirit worlds, metropolitan cities and sexualised 'others' variably provoke emotions, peak experiences, travel syndromes and inner dialogues. The authors show how tourism challenges us to engage with concepts of self, other, time, nature, sex, the body and death. Through a set of ethnographic and historic cases, they demonstrate that such engagements usually have little to do with the actual destination but rather, are deeply anchored in personal memories, repressed fears and desires, and the collective imaginaries of our societies.

Tourism, Affect and Transformation

Emotion in Motion

Hans Christian Andersen

Literature -- through both its texts and its authors -- has often been an important inspiration for tourists. And tourism, in turn, has long inspired literature. Through the analysis of literature from North America, the British Isles and Europe drawn from contrasting periods and across a range of genres and forms, Literature and Tourism provides a detailed and in-depth explanation of the changing interrelationship between literature and tourism. Book jacket.

Literature and Tourism

Liam Bannon

K. Schmidt

ECSCW ’91

Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

In the seventeenth century guardians protected China's most precious secrets - teachings that could change the course of its history. When the Manchu tribe invade and march to the Great Wall of China, the legends of these secrets send Jun, a young man from the southern Hunan province, to find and protect them.From the first day his mother had held Jun, she wanted to share all that she knew of their province with him, but she died when he was a young boy. His father whispered her words of wisdom to him every night, but hid his family's knowledge of the ancient teachings, until the Manchu soldiers advanced upon their village.With hope lost, and freedom being surrendered to the murdering Manchu leader, Jun fights with destiny to win back his province, but without an army of men, or weapons, he needs more than just his mother's wisdom to defeat the enemy. Jun must find the inner strength of a great mountain...

Heng Mountain

Jane Wilkinson

John O'Regan

Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is ‘on the move’, with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously defined places, societies and cultures, the theme of this book is firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of ‘Mobilities’. ‘Mobilities’ deals with the movement of people, objects, capital, information, ideas and cultures on varying scales, and across a variety of borders, from the local to the national to the global. It includes all forms of travel from forced migration for economic or political reasons, to leisure travel and tourism, to virtual travel via the myriad of electronic channels now available to much of the world’s population. Underpinning the choice of theme is a desire to consider the important role of languages and intercultural communication in travel and border crossings; an area which has tended to remain in the background of Mobilities research. The chapters included in this volume represent unique interdisciplinary understandings of the dual concepts of mobile language and border crossings, from crossings in ‘virtual life’ and ‘real life’, to crossings in literature and translation, and finally to crossings in the ‘semioscape’ of tourist guides and tourism signs. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication.

Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

Travelling Languages

Gerrit Verhoeven

Red Star Line Museum (Antwerpen)

Bram Beelaert

Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly

An Lombaerts

DeSoto Brown

Waleed Hazbun

Ayfer Erkul

Cruises, 1895-1934

Red Star Line

This is the story of a curious young elephant called Ely, who is always asking his dad questions. 'Dad, why is the sky blue?', and many more similar questions, which his dad is happy to answer. One day Ely asks, 'Dad, what is the meaning of life?', a question that his dad struggles to answer. Dad encourages Ely to go on a journey of discovery into the jungle, to see if any of the other animals can give him a satisfactory answer to his question. As he encounters different animals, he soon discovers that each has a different opinion and philosophy of life. Which one is correct and what can he learn from each of them? He then meets the wise old owl, who helps him to come to a better understanding of the opinions of the other animals, and also helps to steer him into a direction that appears to make more sense. The book will naturally encourage the reader to ask questions, and help develop their understanding of Ely's question and the potential answers that follow.

Ely The Elephant Book 1 The Meaning of Life

Why do tourists take photos of certain things and not of others? Why do tourists take photos at all? How do photos build places, how do they change and shape lives? An interdisciplinary team of contributors from across the globe explore such questions as they examine the relationships between photography and tourism and tourists.

Tourism, Tourists and Photography

The Framed World

Josef Ploner

Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and develop cities and regions, and to firmly locate them within an increasingly competitive global tourism marketplace. From Athens to Rio de Janeiro, Olympic landmark buildings, ‘districts’, and ‘parks’ have permanently transformed cities and regions, and gained tremendous material and symbolic value as tourist attractions. On another level, the Olympic Games produce a kaleidoscopic range of intangible and quasi-religious engagements with place and spectacle. They have a tremendous impact on the image of the host country, while invoking collective memories and touching on emotions such as suspense, compassion, togetherness, and pride. Tourism has also become a major watchword in ongoing debates on the ‘legacy’ of the Olympic Games, and it deeply penetrates discourses on social justice and cultural change on a local, national and global scale. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.

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