Alex The Ant Goes To The Beach

When Alex accompanies older ants to the beach on his first trip outside of Underwood, he enjoys playing but also demonstrates that he will one day be a great scout for Queen Aziza when he alerts the work crew to danger.

This book explores the knowledge, work and life of Pacific coastal populations from the Pacific Northwest to Panama. Center stage in this volume is the knowledge people acquire on coastal and marine ecosystems. Material and aesthetic benefits from interacting with the environment contribute to the ongoing building of coastal cultures. The contributors are particularly interested in how local knowledge -either recently generated or transmitted along generations- interfaces with science, conservation, policy and artistic expression. Their observations exhibit a wide array of outcomes ranging from resource and human exploitation to the magnification of cultural resilience and coastal heritage. The interdisciplinary nature of ethnobiology allows the chapter authors to have a broad range of freedom when examining their subject matter. They build a multifaceted understanding of coastal heritage through the different lenses offered by the humanities, social sciences, oceanography, fisheries and conservation science and, not surprisingly, the arts. Coastal Heritage and Cultural Resilience establishes an intimate bond between coastal communities and the audience in a time when resilience of coastal life needs to be celebrated and fortified.

Where do insects who live in Vacationland go on vacation? Our friend ALEX enlists the help of his friends to decide on the very best place to go. Where do you think it is? Put on your sunglasses, get your beach towel, and come find out in the pages of ALEX's latest.

Alex the sea turtle climbs onto the beach to sun himself and while doing so meets a gentle young girl named Jennifer and has to endure the mischief of a boy named Reggie. Alex returns to the sea. Reggie goes swimming and gets caught in a riptide. His trashing attracts the attention of a shark. Alex comes to the rescue and saves Reggie's life. One day, many years later, he meets Jennifer and Reggie and their three sons and this time he receives a lot of love and care from the whole family.

Winner of the Patrick White Literary Award On the wild clifftop of the coastal town of Mangowak, Ron McCoy lives an almost marsupial existence with his elderly mother. He hunts and gathers while the town sleeps; he is acutely shy, but in the privacy of his imagination, fostered as it is by his love of music and the oceanscape of his birth, all things are possible. Liz and Craig Wilson, meanwhile, are lovers of the surf and the bush. When Craig is offered a job by Colin Batty, Mangowak's larrikin real estate agent, the dream of bringing up their kids away from the city is finally realised. But working for Batty Real Estate is not as simple as it seems. The surrounding landscape is full of alchemic power and mystery and when Ron McCoy and his mother decide to sell half their land, the subtle generational differences between young and old Australia begin to swirl. Written in a precise, painterly style, Gregory Day's follow-up to his award-winning debut novel, The Patron Saint of Eels, is a powerful meditation on belonging, on landscape, and on love.