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Floating Islands
An Activity Book
Richard J. Heggen
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Floating Islands, An Activity Book
Copyright © 2015 by Richard J. Heggen
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Floating Islands, An Activity Book
PROLOG
This work is a sequel to Underground Rivers, From the River Styx to the Rio Buenaventura with
Occasional Diversions, a document of some 1500 pages available free of charge at
http://www.unm.edu/~rheggen/UndergroundRivers.htm. Underground Rivers is broad in content,
pursuing the thesis "Underground rivers are everywhere" into history, science, literature, the fine
arts, popular culture, even postage stamp collecting, and that's but a portion of the realms.
While few would care to sequentially plough through so many fields of knowledge, peruses have
responded with thoughts related to their particular interests, keeping Underground Rivers in a
state of dynamic compilation.
Underground Rivers includes a degree of overview with which the reader may already be
acquainted. Discussion of the Arabic contribution to the subject, for example, includes general
discussion of how Islamic scholarship helped preserve Greek writings. As different readers have
different basic knowledge, however, it's best to err in favor of the novice.
The reward is recognizing how thoughts wander between what we might presume to be disparate
areas of study. Underground rivers are everywhere, but more than that, they incessantly
intermingle.
Where I've delved into such background material in Underground Rivers, I've cut back repetition. I
apologize, but nobody wants another 1500-page tome.
The topics of floating islands and underground rivers juxtapose with near-perfect-symmetry, each
connoting something that sounds somewhat geological, but claiming a vertical relationship
contrary to our expectations. Rivers flow on the ground, not under it. Islands rest upon the bed of
a waterbody, not the water itself.
This venture would have crept at snail's pace but for Chet Van Duzer's Floating Islands: A Global
Bibliography (2004), a tour-de-force in bibliographic cataloging. Van Duzer's format is largely one
of alphabetical order, efficient for cross-referencing, less efficient for to thematic narrative.
Conceptual drafts of many chapters that follow began with cut-and-pastings from Van Duzer's
volume.
Richard Heggen
Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
University of New Mexico
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Floating Islands, An Activity Book
CONTENTS
Our Table of Contents is a menu of activities. One may not care to pursue all, but we shall hope
that at least a few engage our curiosity.
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Introduction
Consult the Classics
History
Query the Brits
Folklore
Seek a Saint
Religion
Look for Outriggers
Pacific Studies
Ask a Native American
Native American Studies
Assure that the Island's Not a Whale
Zoology
Assure that the Island's Not a Turtle
Zoology
Assure that the Island's Not Another Sea Creature
Zoology
Act Literate
Literature
Pursue Adventure
Literature
Invent
Engineering
Squander Hours on Matinees, Comics and Video Games
Pop Culture
Rhyme
Literature
Mark the Metaphor
Language
Draw It, Sculpt It or Hum It
Fine Arts
Obey Archemede's' Law
Physics
Address the Rest of the Physics
Science
Look Again
Illusion
Check for Organic Certification
Biology
Check the Crust
Geology
Check if It's an Island Floating on an Island
Geography
Waste Away
Geology
Knock on Wood
Wood Products
Tango
Geography
Waltz
Geography
Rock It
Science
Read Pliny
Literature
Revel with Royalty
History
Don't Eat the Apple
Religion
Prepare for the Flood
Religion
Visit Fishermen and Farmers
Sociology
Stroll
Exercise
Duck When Passing Under Bridges
Engineering
Avoid the Jaguars
Survival Skills
Visit Old MacDonald's Farm
Animal Husbandry
Be Wary of Other Creatures
Survival Skills
See It It's a Ship
Sailing
Watch the Island Bob
Geography
Sail the Seven Seas
Geography
Enjoy the Captain's Yarn
Entertainment
Consult A Vintage Travel Guide for the British Isles
Travel
Fly the Flag
Imperialism
Whistle Dixie
Geography
Consult a Relator
Law
Cross Over the Bridge
Traffic
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Land an Airplane
Save the Environment
Shiver
Look for a Trashcan
Watch for Kangaroos
When in New York, Don't Expect to See the Empire State Building
Recreate
Avoid Swimming Under It
Picnic
Punch a Hole and Drop a Line
Dwell
Power Up
Dock
Tow it
Lose It
Levitate It
Attack It
Eat It
Aeronautics
Environment
Polar Studies
Environment
Geography
Geography
Vacation
Athletics
Vacation
Vacation
Architecture
Energy
Boating
Boating
Geography
Fantasy
Domination
Culinary Arts
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