Empire by Jon Tonks First edition (2014) First impression Please note you can choose between a copy in new condition and one in fine. Both copies are signed by Jon Tonks to title page, with the one in fine condition also being dated and having a dedication by Tonks. There are no markings to the copy in fine condition, simply minor toning to extremities of pages. About Empire So, ‘Empire’ is a journey across the South Atlantic exploring life on four remote islands, British Overseas Territories. Intertwined through history as relics of the once formidable British Empire. Since 2007 I have voyaged to Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha, the Falkland Islands and St Helena. To photograph the people, landscapes and also pockets of history embedded within each place. I spent up to a month at a time in each territory. Travelling 60,000 miles around the Atlantic via military outposts, low lit airstrips and long voyages aboard cargo ships, fishing vessels as well as the last working Royal Mail Ship. Artist Bio Jon Tonks is a British photographer based in the UK. His work focuses on telling stories about people’s lives shaped by history and geography. With an MA in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism from London College of Communication, his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Sunday Times, Telegraph and FT Weekend Magazines, as well as the British Journal of Photography and more. He has been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize three times, twice for the Terry O’Neill award, and in 2014, Tonks was presented with the Vic Odden Award by the Royal Photographic Society for his first book Empire – a journey across the South Atlantic exploring life on four remote British Oveaseas Territories. The book was hailed by Martin Parr as one of his best books the year. Related Links So, more books by Jon Tonks here. Also, more books by Dewi Lewis here.
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
The role of resident vet in the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Ascension encompasses the complexities of caring for the world's oldest land animal - a 200-year-old giant tortoise - and MoD mascots at the Falklands airbase; pursuing mystery creatures and invasive microorganisms; and rescuing animals in extraordinarily rugged landscapes. Hugely entertaining and affectionate, Jonathan Hollins's tales of island vetting are not only full of ingenuity and astounding fauna - they are also steeped in the unique local cultures, history and peoples of the islands, far removed from the hustle of continental life.
Ostrov Svätej Heleny je jedno z najizolovanejších miest sveta má krátku ale fascinujúcu históriu, púšť aj hory, duchov aj žraloky. Pridajte…
A dainty Swedish coconut cookie is what you get from this easy-to-follow recipe.
St Helena is a small volcanic outcrop in the South Atlantic Ocean, settled in 1659. Together with two associated and remote colonies, at Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, it is a British dependency under a Governor appointed by The Queen.
One of the rare travel guides specially dedicated to the British Islands of St. Hélène, Ascension & Amp Tristan da Cunha. Addresses, good plans etc. publisher description: This Fully Revised Fourth Edition of Bradt's St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Remains The Only Guide to These Three British Overseas Territories, Tiny Volcanic Islands That Are Virtual Specks in The Middle of the Atlantic Ocean and Which Thanks to The Opening of a New Airport in 2017 Are More Accessible Than Ever Before. Rugged, Volcanic and Very Remote, AS Napoleon's Place of Exile Following The Battle of Waterloo, St Helena Has Galed A Notoriety That Assures ITS Square In The Travel Lexicon. This Fully Revised Edition including All The Most Recent Information, from The Latest Details of How to get there to Expanded Practical Information on The Airport, More D TAIL ON SEVERAL OF THE POST BOX walks AND THE MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL, AND MORE IN - DEPTH INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO GO IN Ascension. Also Covered Are Details of the 2021 Napoleon Bicentenary, More Dedicated Sections On What To Do In The Islands' Two Gateway Cities: 48 hours in Johannesburg and 48 hours in Cape Town. Wildlife enthusiasts, Nature Lovers, Hikers, and Travelers Interhedd In History and Heritage ARE All Catered For. The Endemic Flora and Fauna is One of the Islands' Chief Attractions, with 1,000 species of birds Observe on St Helena Alone. Also Covered Are The Inspiring Millennium Forest Project, Where Visitors Give Something Back by Planting An Endemic Tree, and Sea Safaris for Spotting The Area's Abundant Marine Life, Including Whale Sharks, Dolphins and Humpback Whales, As Well As Fish and Seabirds. Boat Trips, Which Can include Snorkelling and Diving, Are Increasingly popular. How to Visit Jonathan The Tortoise Is Included, Too: Hatched Circa 1832, He Is The Oldest Living Land Animal on the Planet. Despite Increased Accessibility, These Three Islands Are Likely to Preserve Their Reputation Amongst The Most Unspoiled Destinations in the world . With Bradt's St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Be One of the Intrepid FEW TO VISIT.
The island of Tristan da Cunha is situated in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2 805 km from Cape Town and 3 353 km from Rio de Janeiro. One of the stations that DXers used to dream about receiving was ZOE Radio Tristan which operated with just 40 watts on 3290 kHz. An interview with Radio Tristan's first operator, Alan Hemming, was given to the defunct British Association of DXers in 1972 about the station`s early days. The historical interview has been preserved and is reproduced here with kind permission from Glenn Hauser c/o the DXLD : " I first went out to Tristan da Cunha in October 1965, as Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs. On Tristan this fine title covers the work of single handed radio operator and technician and Postmaster in charge of the slim mail deliveries - about five in and five out, per year. The normal postal work does not tax one, but the philatelic work takes a fair amount of time. Many of these friendly islanders owned transistor radios, shortwave models, and listening was restricted to poor reception, with inadequate aerials, to Springbok Radio and a few other stations in Africa. BBC had, at that time, not started to broadcast from Ascension Island, so reception was not very good. When the Governor of St. Helena came to the Island in 1966, I approached him to sound out his feelings about an idea which I had for putting a local programme out, with some local colour and rebroadcast of BBC news. The Governor, Sir John Field, who was also the Governor of Tristan, was for it, and so when he left I went ahead with preparations to put on our first programme as part of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations, due in August 1966. We had no materials, and few records, and the equipment to start with was the Oceanspan VII¹s ship's transmitter which we used for our communications. Our frequency was chosen to suit the band-coverage of most of the receivers, and was, in fact, a shipping frequency. We were not licenced at all, and so we kept the rig on low power. In fact, we were a pirate station in the first instance. We used an ordinary Philips record player and my own recorder for musical reproduction, and a pre-amplifier was built into the Oceanspan to feed those things in. We started off with just one night per week. To start with the Islanders just did not understand what was meant by a record request programme and, in fact, our first few programmes were cooked-up, requests and all. However the programmes were received enthusiastically and the Tristans were delighted to be getting their first radio entertainment with decent reception. Having made our start, and found that our efforts were appreciated, I decided that if I could count on support for further evenings from my various co-operators, I should go ahead with plans to get a frequency authorised, and to improve the equipment. By Ham Radio, contact was made with the G.P.O. in London. GB2SM, at the Science Museum in London, co-operated on this, and I was asked to listen on the 90 metre band and ask for a frequency which appeared to be clear. I eventually asked for 3290 kHz and this was granted, with a low power limit, intended for local reception only. By the time that I returned from leave in U.K. in 1967, plans for improvement had been made and Tristan Radio was officially one of the world's broadcasting stations - maybe the world's smallest in size of building, size of listening public (280 total population) and certainly one of the lowest-powered stations. We bought two Garrard` record decks and a `Ferrograph` recorder, and these were built into a console along with a 6-channel mixer pre-amplifier which I constructed locally. An old navy 62 set transmitter was available locally and out of use, so this was modified to put out with its pair of 807's in the output, approximately 40 watts input. A good antenna was cut for the frequency, and we went on the air with a compact programme set-up in one room of our old wooden shack on the cliff at Tristan. We did three nights a week, Wednesday, Fridays and Sundays from 1900 to 2200 GMT. The signature tune "Scottish Soldier" was chosen because the early founder settler of the island community was Corporal Glass of Kelso in Scotland. He went to Tristan with the Army Garrison and stayed when they left. After the initial announcement in English we usually had Children`s Hour, conducted by a lady from the Island and, sometimes, supplemented by BBC Transcription Service material. The children`s programme makes way for a re-broadcast of the BBC overseas news at 2000 hrs - normally received well these days on a 9 MHz frequency, or on 15 MHz. We have local request programmes with birthday messages etc, such serial programmes as the Paul Temple series, comedy serials, Ken Dodd, Kenneth Horne etc. Locally produced programmes include some panel games. One currently running had the doctor as Question Master and a team of four people each time the game went on air. When I left in November I had introduced a further one night per week, on Mondays, same hours of broadcasting. The low power used makes it unlikely that reception will ever be good in Europe as there is competition from other much more powerful stations on or about the frequency. In fact the little transmitter, as I found when I was on relief there in 1971, was not being run at full efficiency. The ATU which goes with the transmitter had been disregarded, and the set was not loaded at all. Reception was even poor on the island. Whilst there I built a small pi-output which brought our reception up to a decent level on Gough Island about 250 miles to the South, which is a very unfavourable direction behind the mountain. Reports of reception reaching the Island have not been confirmable in the main, although one Swedish listener gave enough programme content to make it seem likely that he did hear something. The same applies to the South Africans expedition reports. They could have heard us but the reports are all very indeterminate. In fact, the only one who, whilst I was on the Island, made a likely report was the Swedish listener. Now the station may be heard more easily. A new transmitter has gone out to the island and it seems that the transmission may be with 1000 watts in the near future. If a good aerial is used there may now be a real chance of hearing Tristan Radio. Even with this greatly increased power it will not be an easy station to receive. " Dxer Glenn Hauser added : " I am not sure that the 1000 watt transmitter was ever installed though it was shown for some years in the WRTH under future plans. The station was last listed on 3290 in the 1993 Handbook, since 1994 it has been listed as an FM outlet. South African DXers have told me about their expeditions to the coastline stringing out long aerials to try and receive the station during its limited transmission hours. "
Not a single ship visited Tristan da Cunha from 1909 until 1919, until the HMS Yarmouth finally stopped by to inform the islanders of the outcome of World War I. Accessible on by sea, Tristan da Cunha is in fact an archipelago, the remotest inhabited one in the world, although only the main island w
Not a single ship visited Tristan da Cunha from 1909 until 1919, until the HMS Yarmouth finally stopped by to inform the islanders of the outcome of World War I. Accessible on by sea, Tristan da Cunha is in fact an archipelago, the remotest inhabited one in the world, although only the main island w
St Helena Travel Guide - Holiday advice and tourist tips on everything from Jamestown highlights and accommodation to the islands of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Also featuring beaches and resorts, Napoleon's exile, The Peaks National Park, natural history, endemic plants and wildlife, walking, hiking and diving.
Britain’s Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant welcomed on Thursday the new St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009, which among other things includes a Bill of Rights, better defines the role of the Governor and has separate chapters for each of the three islands.
Ascension Island is a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Along with Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha, it forms a British Overseas Territory.
Empire by Jon Tonks First edition (2014) First impression Please note you can choose between a copy in new condition and one in fine. Both copies are signed by Jon Tonks to title page, with the one in fine condition also being dated and having a dedication by Tonks. There are no markings to the copy in fine condition, simply minor toning to extremities of pages. About Empire So, ‘Empire’ is a journey across the South Atlantic exploring life on four remote islands, British Overseas Territories. Intertwined through history as relics of the once formidable British Empire. Since 2007 I have voyaged to Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha, the Falkland Islands and St Helena. To photograph the people, landscapes and also pockets of history embedded within each place. I spent up to a month at a time in each territory. Travelling 60,000 miles around the Atlantic via military outposts, low lit airstrips and long voyages aboard cargo ships, fishing vessels as well as the last working Royal Mail Ship. Artist Bio Jon Tonks is a British photographer based in the UK. His work focuses on telling stories about people’s lives shaped by history and geography. With an MA in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism from London College of Communication, his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Sunday Times, Telegraph and FT Weekend Magazines, as well as the British Journal of Photography and more. He has been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize three times, twice for the Terry O’Neill award, and in 2014, Tonks was presented with the Vic Odden Award by the Royal Photographic Society for his first book Empire – a journey across the South Atlantic exploring life on four remote British Oveaseas Territories. The book was hailed by Martin Parr as one of his best books the year. Related Links So, more books by Jon Tonks here. Also, more books by Dewi Lewis here.
Ascension, Botswana, Lesotho (mit Basutoland), Malawi (mit Nyassaland), Namibia (mit Südwestafrika), Sambia (mit Nord-Rhodesien), St. Helena, Simbabwe (mit Süd-Rhodesien, Rhodesien), Südafrika mit Kolonien und Homelands, Swaziland, Tristan da Cunha. Fundgrube für Motiv- und Klassiksammler, Redaktionelle Überarbeitung des gesamten Nachschlagewerks,…
Not a single ship visited Tristan da Cunha from 1909 until 1919, until the HMS Yarmouth finally stopped by to inform the islanders of the outcome of World War I. Accessible on by sea, Tristan da Cunha is in fact an archipelago, the remotest inhabited one in the world, although only the main island w
1. Tristan da Cunha Photo credit: Brian Gratwicke, Flickr The grandaddy of hard-to-reach destinations, Tristan da Cunha is a South Atlantic archipelago | 5-of-the-worlds-hardest-to-reach-places
Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs and by maps, tables and diagrams in the text, this is a travel and topographical guide to the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, including history and Napoleon. A final chapter covers Ascension Island. Appendices include Tristan da Cunha, the endemic plants of St. Helena, and a list of the stamp issues of the three islands since 1960. Good condition.
The government of Tristan da Cunha, a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, is advertising for an adviser with farming experience in the UK to help develop livestock and agriculture.
One can’t get more remote than Tristan da Cunha—and that’s how the locals like it.
There are four main islands in the group, Tristan da Cunha island, Nightingale (including Middle and Stoltenhoff Islands), Inaccessible Island, and Gough Island
Not a single ship visited Tristan da Cunha from 1909 until 1919, until the HMS Yarmouth finally stopped by to inform the islanders of the outcome of World War I. Accessible on by sea, Tristan da Cunha is in fact an archipelago, the remotest inhabited one in the world, although only the main island w
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