Island Mackenzie

Packende Highland-Saga über Liebe, Verrat und Intrigen. Schottland, 13. Jahrhundert: Sie sollten Feinde sein, doch das Schicksal machte sie zu Verbündeten. Auf der Flucht vor einer arrangierten Ehe rettet Sessany, Tochter des Chiefs der MacKenzies, einen vermeintlichen Wilderer vor dem Galgen. Dieser Wilderer ist niemand anderer als Alasdair, der Erbe des verfeindeten MacDonald-Clans. Auf der Flucht vor den Schergen ihres Vaters kommen Sessany und Alasdair einer Intrige auf die Spur, die das ganze Land in den Krieg stürzen kann. Gemeinsam nehmen sie den Kampf auf - für den Frieden und ihre Liebe. "Wundervoller Roman in der Welt der Highlander." - Amazon-Kunde "Genial und klasse!" - Amazon-Kunde Brigitte Melzer wurde 1971 geboren und schreibt vorrangig Jugendbücher, die dem Fantasy-Genre zuzuordnen sind. Nach zwei kaufmännischen Ausbildungen und zehn Jahren in einer Bank entdeckte sie das Schreiben für sich. Ihr fulminanter Debütroman "Whisper Königin der Diebe" gehörte zu den drei besten Manuskripten, die für den Wolfgang-Hohlbein-Preis 2003 eingereicht wurden. Mit ihrer "Vampyr"-Trilogie gelang ihr der Durchbruch. Seitdem hat sie mit zahlreichen weiteren Romanen ihr Publikum begeistert.

New Zealand is one of the world’s most remote countries. Perhaps that’s what makes it so enticing to visit. Well, that and her jaw-dropping scenery, incredible Kiwi hospitality and list of possible adventures longer than a bungy jump cord.

This is one place you’ll want to savor, one island at a time. That’s why this book just includes 54 enlightening and entertaining impressions about the South Island. Soak up the scenery and adventure sports in and around Queenstown—possibly one of Mother Nature’s finest masterpieces. Give into temptation in the Otago region and try the local wines or your hand at gold panning. Travel down to Te Anau for an up-close look at the Southern Alps and the incomparable Fiordland National Park. Experience the warmth of the city of Nelson, one of the country’s sunniest spots. Then set sail or tramp through Abel Tasman National Park, the Tasman District and the picture postcard Marlborough Sounds.

This is the fourth volume in the travel book series, The Unguidebooks. The authors continue to travel the world and share their personal reflections in their unique style. They give a modern twist to the well-known phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Each of their impressions features a captivating original photograph and a story that’s exactly 1,000 characters long.

A visit made to Kangaroo Island in July 2018 in the company of good friends. The Southern Ocean Lodge was excellent with great staff and fine wine and food. The resort development was well designed and totally in keeping with the excellence of the natural site.

The HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this series include lectures, compiled sketches, and chronological discourses on Greece, Rome, and other early European and African civilisations. The collection also has a selection of physical and classical geography texts.

The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Papahānaumokuākea, or the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, is a vast archipelago that begins 140 miles northwest of the main Hawaiian Islands and extends across 1,200 miles of the Pacific Ocean. It contains more than five thousand square miles of pristine coral reefs and supports more than seven thousand marine species, approximately half of which are unique to the Hawaiian Island chain. Ancient Hawaiians explored, utilized, and even inhabited some of these islands prior to Western contact, and the archipelago remains a source of great cultural significance to Native Hawaiians today.

This chapter describes the changing legal status of Papahānaumokuākea from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It focuses particularly on the policies resulting from the archipelago’s designation in 2007 as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument. The chapter outlines elements of Papahānaumokuākea’s current Monument Management Plan that are designed to incorporate traditional Native Hawaiian knowledge and practices in the preservation of the archipelago’s ecosystems. 

Also discussed are laws affecting the islands’ surrounding waters. These laws, many of which are specialized in scope and coverage, have created a complex and often overlapping jurisdictional web in which the boundaries between state and federal authority are sometimes unclear. However, Monument Management Plan has made strides in promoting Native Hawaiians’ customary rights of access to both the waters and the islands of Papahānaumokuākea. This chapter explains the criteria under which permits for Native Hawaiian activities in Papahānaumokuākea are now granted. 

“Papahānaumokuākea: The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands” is Chapter 12 of Native Hawaiian Law: A Treatise, a volume that updates and expands on the seminal work of the 1991 Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook. The publication is a collaborative effort of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and Kamehameha Publishing.