This Land: A Trust From God

Name: This Land: A Trust From God
Price: $31.95 NZD
Author: Verna Penn Moll
ISBN: 9781493123933

The Environment and related topics: Essays

by Verna Penn Moll

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Book Details

Language : English

Publication Date : 4/04/2014

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 228

ISBN : 9781493123933

Format : Hardcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 228

ISBN : 9781493123940

Format : E-Book

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 228

ISBN : 9781493123957

About the Book

"The book calls us to give thanks for every good steward who gathers the everyday we senselessly toss aside, the stewards who know its history, its character and its value; stewards who cherish The Presence in its ordinariness; those like the" long-memoried woman," who re-collect all its many pieces, and re-present them beautifully back to us in good trust for the safekeeping of these islands, their children, and their legacy.

About the Author

Verna Penn Moll is a bibliographer who also writes on environmental and cultural/historical issues. Her published works include, Virgin Islands Historical Documents (Ed) 1985; Virgin Islands (World Bibliographical Series), 1991; Legacy 1997... and Land Acquisition by Virgin Islanders of African Descent from 1834 to 2000. Penn Moll was educated in the Caribbean and the United Kingdom and has held top positions in education, Public Library Services and the National Archives of the Virgin Islands. She is the co-founder of Round Hill Research Consultants.

Customer Reviews

"NEW BVI BOOK FOCUSES ON ENVIRONMENT, CULTURE & HISTORY
By Giorgio Migliavacca
The title of this book says it all, ?This Land: A Trust from God ? The Environment and related topics?. A prolific, well-articulated and well-documented writer and researcher Verna Penn-Moll has written articles and commentaries for local newspapers on an astonishingly regular basis since the ?good old days?. As a librarian she is well aware of the ephemeral nature of newspapers; in fact, very few people have runs of old newspapers and only a few persons occasionally clip an article or a commentary and file it in an orderly manner so it can be easily found.
This new and stimulating volume gives us a clearer idea of the contribution made by the author, both qualitatively and quantitatively. This is a timely collection of her articles, chronologically offered to the reader who is reminded of many aspects often forgotten or overlooked such as culture, local history, architecture, detrimental technology, soi-disant progress, civics, politics and most of all the impact of all of the above on local environmental and conservation issues.
Now we can better appreciate the substantial contribution made by the author, and we not only reflect on what has gone wrong, but we are at the same time prompted to be more active on cultural and environmental issues if we want to preserve what we have with a view to hopefully salvage some of the values and God-given gifts we have lost or compromised in our myopic quest for materialistic gains.
Laws and protection measures can go a long way in safeguarding our unique environment, but more importantly, grassroots preservation awareness and stewardship is something that should be second nature to all of us; yet we forget that it took millions of years for the planet to gain its echological equilibrium which was so decisive in making the presence of our species on this earth possible. During the last 50 years mankind has done more i

GIORGIO MIGLIAVACCA
"NEW BVI BOOK FOCUSES ON ENVIRONMENT, CULTURE & HISTORY
By Giorgio Migliavacca
The title of this book says it all, ?This Land: A Trust from God ? The Environment and related topics?. A prolific, well-articulated and well-documented writer and researcher Verna Penn-Moll has written articles and commentaries for local newspapers on an astonishingly regular basis since the ?good old days?. As a librarian she is well aware of the ephemeral nature of newspapers; in fact, very few people have runs of old newspapers and only a few persons occasionally clip an article or a commentary and file it in an orderly manner so it can be easily found.
This new and stimulating volume gives us a clearer idea of the contribution made by the author, both qualitatively and quantitatively. This is a timely collection of her articles, chronologically offered to the reader who is reminded of many aspects often forgotten or overlooked such as culture, local history, architecture, detrimental technology, soi-disant progress, civics, politics and most of all the impact of all of the above on local environmental and conservation issues.
Now we can better appreciate the substantial contribution made by the author, and we not only reflect on what has gone wrong, but we are at the same time prompted to be more active on cultural and environmental issues if we want to preserve what we have with a view to hopefully salvage some of the values and God-given gifts we have lost or compromised in our myopic quest for materialistic gains.
Laws and protection measures can go a long way in safeguarding our unique environment, but more importantly, grassroots preservation awareness and stewardship is something that should be second nature to all of us; yet we forget that it took millions of years for the planet to gain its echological equilibrium which was so decisive in making the presence of our species on this earth possible. During the last 50 years mankind has done mor

GIORGIO MIGLIAVACCA
"NEW BVI BOOK FOCUSES ON ENVIRONMENT, CULTURE & HISTORY
By Giorgio Migliavacca
The title of this book says it all, ?This Land: A Trust from God ? The Environment and related topics?. A prolific, well-articulated and well-documented writer and researcher Verna Penn-Moll has written articles and commentaries for local newspapers on an astonishingly regular basis since the ?good old days?. As a librarian she is well aware of the ephemeral nature of newspapers; in fact, very few people have runs of old newspapers and only a few persons occasionally clip an article or a commentary and file it in an orderly manner so it can be easily found.
This new and stimulating volume gives us a clearer idea of the contribution made by the author, both qualitatively and quantitatively. This is a timely collection of her articles, chronologically offered to the reader who is reminded of many aspects often forgotten or overlooked such as culture, local history, architecture, detrimental technology, soi-disant progress, civics, politics and most of all the impact of all of the above on local environmental and conservation issues.
Now we can better appreciate the substantial contribution made by the author, and we not only reflect on what has gone wrong, but we are at the same time prompted to be more active on cultural and environmental issues if we want to preserve what we have with a view to hopefully salvage some of the values and God-given gifts we have lost or compromised in our myopic quest for materialistic gains.
Laws and protection measures can go a long way in safeguarding our unique environment, but more importantly, grassroots preservation awareness and stewardship is something that should be second nature to all of us; yet we forget that it took millions of years for the planet to gain its echological equilibrium which was so decisive in making the presence of our species on this earth possible. During the last 50 years mankind has done mor

GIORGIO MIGLIAVACCA

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