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Coastal treasure hunter
Waves wash all sorts of things from the sea onto the coast. People find many treasures on coasts around the world. You might find shells and colorful fishing floats, creatures from the deep sea, or even jewels and coins from ancient shipwrecks.
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Clam-I-am!
When Norval the Fish decides to host a talkshow for the Fish Channel with the help of the Cat in the Hat, things take an amusing twist as special guests, such as Clam-I-Am, horseshoe, jellyfish, seagulls, and more suddenly appear to be part of the event!
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Gleaning and Dreaming on Car Park Beach
This article explores beachcombing and gleaning as practices that combine mobility with daydreaming and which allow us to experience our environment with the perception of ‘tactile nearness’ (Benjamin). Through eco-poetics shaped by ‘inconceivable analogies and connections’ (Benjamin), the author re-imagines a neglected space used as a short-cut on the way to work—the Liverpool Adelphi car park in Liverpool—as “Car Park Beach”. Inspired by the situationists’ slogan ‘Sous les pavés, la plage’, the author argues that Car Park Beach opens up imaginative possibilities for a different form of ecological encounter with our own precarity, one ushered in by a ‘close-up’ awareness of how waste transforms our world. Car Park Beach is a site that the author associates with the drift-like, distracted movements of both people and matter, and this article therefore attempts to deploy an equivalent method of analysis. Drawing on her own practice of gleaning photos and objects on the way to work, the author places a vocabulary of flotsam and jetsam at the axis of her discussion. Allusive, often layered, connections are followed between a diverse range of sources including beachcombing guides, literary memoirs, documentary films, eco-criticism, and auto-ethnography.
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The beachcomber's companion
\"The Beachcomber's Companion is an illustrated guide to collecting shells and other beach objects and includes basic tips and fun tidbits for shell collectors: how to clean shells, beachcombing commandments, the beachcomber's toolkit, and an identification guide for 40 shells and beach treasures\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Beachcomber’s guide to the Northeast
People have long walked the shore in search of treasures washed up from far away. Now, visitors and residents of New England and northeast have this source to get them to the beach and tell them what they can expect to find. Covering the coast from Maryland up to the Canadian border, The Beachcomber's Guide to the Northeast describes every prominent beach, its makeup (whether sand or rocky,) and includes directions and pertinent facts about available amenities. The text includes descriptions and photos of flora and fauna, such as crabs, shells, birds, insects, even fish and whales. And of course there are the flotsam and jetsam that can be found, from driftwood to sea glass to beach stones and even shipwrecks. It's all covered here.
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Ecologies of the beachcomber in colonial Australian literature
In his 1964 article 'Beachcombers and Castaways,' the well-known British anthropologist H E Maude writes 'probably we would all know a beachcomber if we were to see one, yet he is hard to define as a type.' He describes the OED definition-'a settler on the islands of the Pacific, living by pearl-fishing, etc., and often by less reputable means'-as 'reasonably accurate,' before giving a detailed history of those figures who had 'voluntarily or perforce' become integrated into the Indigenous communities of the South Sea Islands from the 1780s to the 1850s (255).1Many beachcombers were escaped convicts or deserting sailors seeking freedom from hardship by retreating to places popularly conceived as natural paradises. These days, however, Maude's account of the beachcomber as part castaway, part vagabond is no longer quite so familiar. Beachcombing has become associated with scanning the shoreline to collect shipwrecked objects or natural specimens washed up by the sea. It is accompanied by a variety of environmental investments including expertise in tidal patterns, species identification, conservation, and an intimacy with the coastal landscape described by Rachel Carson, in 'The Edge of the Sea' (1955), as a deep 'fascination born of inner-meaning and significance' (xiii). This article explores the beachcomber's changing relationships to island settings and their local species in stories and memoirs by the colonial Australian author Louis Becke, as well as in later non-fiction works by writer and naturalist E J Banfield. It suggests that Banfield's 1908 book, 'The Confessions of a Beachcomber', marks a self-conscious transformation of this figure from tropical-island fugitive to ecological recluse.
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