Books with author Dana Robinson

Damon Robinson, an L.A. based artist, musician and storyteller asks you to imagine the animals you might find and imagine the music they may play in The Wonderful (Magical, Super-Fantastical) Musical Animals. The cast of characters (which truly are super-fantastical) are beautifully illustrated from Trump-a-saurs to Alto-gators and are sure enliven one's love for both music and animals alike. Robinson is founder of NOMAD Los Angeles, a printmaking studio and art compound dedicated to the exploration and preservation of analog art and print processes, and to the inspiration of the communal creative laboratory.

Amber's house in the Crystal Kingdom is beautiful. The walls are made of quartz crystals, and her garden is full of trees and coloured, perfumed flowers.The peace is shattered when the evil Wizard returns to the land, bringing destruction in his quest for power.Amber's family flee to the safety of the crystal caves, but Amber has special powers.She must use them to help bring harmony back to the kingdom...

A distinct branch of the multi-faceted fishing industry, trawling dates back at least to the 1370s when attempts were made to prohibit the use of a primitive trawling device, the 'wondyrychoun' on the Thames. But it was not until the late 18th century that the beam trawl was deployed to any great extent, the fishermen of Barking and Brixham claiming credit for pioneering the technique. Thereafter, particularly from the 1840s, trawling eclipsed seining, drifting and line fishing as the principal method of capture, a transition which not only underpinned the growth of east coast fishing stations such as Hull and Grimsby, but also explained Britain's emergence as the largest and most successful of Europe's fishing nations. The rapid adoption of the steam trawler in the 1880s confirmed these trends and faciliated the exploitation of more distant fishing grounds. Two World Wars, a series of Cod Wars and intense foreign competition have eroded Britain's pre-eminence in the 20th century, so much so that by the early 1990s her interests in distant water trawling were negligible. The author adopts a largely chronological approach to chart the rise and fall of trawling in Britain. Using an array of primary sources, he identifies the key factors - growing demand, links with markets, technological change, political rivalries - which have conditioned the perfomance of the trawling business. A number of themes permeate the work, including the life and working conditions of the trawlermen, the place of trawling in the fishing industry at large, attitudes to the conservation of fish stocks and the role of government in the prosecution and prosperity of the trawl fishery. In dealing with such issues, the book provides a well balanced, thoroughly researched account of a vital arm of Britain's 19th and 20th century fishing industry.