This is the first book to explore the numerous ways in which mobile technologies and social media are influencing our outdoor experiences.Across the fields of outdoor education, outdoor recreation and leisure, and nature-based tourism, the book considers how practices within each of those domains are being influenced by dramatically shifting interactions between technology, humans, the natural world, and wider society. Drawing on cutting-edge research by leading scholars from aroun...

Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly. The industry has moved beyond its infancy, and is now entering a maturing phase with increased numbers and types of vessels, more demanding routes, and more regular and predictable patterns of activity. The increase in cruise activities, and the associated risks of accidents, as well as the potential and actual impacts of the large numbers of tourists ...

At the beginning of the 21st century, Antarctica is poised at the edge of a warmer and busier world. Leading Antarctic researchers examine the needs and challenges of Antarctic environmental management today and tomorrow. Through: (i) investigating the impacts of human activities on specific ecosystems and species, (ii) examining existing environmental management and monitoring practices in place in various regions and (iii) interrogating stakeholders, they address the following questions:...

Prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the Arctic and Antarctic regions were experiencing significant growth in tourist arrivals. In the aftermath of this global crisis, the tourism industry has rebounded and the number of tourists visiting the polar regions is expected to keep growing significantly in the coming years. Remote regions are increasingly accessible as tourism actors develop technologies, diversify activities and itineraries, and climate change worsens. In ...

A rainy day has spoiled Alice's picnic, scattered seeds across Grandma's herb garden and left the little outdoor table in need of care. At first, the grey sky seems to have taken away everything they planned. But Grandma knows that disappointment can be the beginning of a different kind of day.Together, Alice and Grandma set things right. They gather the loose seeds, tend the rain-soaked plants and rescue the few berries that remain. Working side by side, Alice notices the garden's...

Arthur Templar and the Secret Codex is set in the Elderberry Academy for Special Education.The only Eternal Library in the world is at the Academy. It has disappeared and this library matters. It contains destiny scrolls for Arthur and his friends.The stakes are high as Arthur Templar, a young timethreader with extraordinary psychic powers, and psychic friends attempt to unravel the dark secrets of the missing library.The danger increases as they get closer to uncov...

The annual Classics Dinner is in full swing. Professor Hadley MacNamara — formidable, silver-haired, sixty-five, the kind of man rooms arrange themselves around — is holding court on the veranda of the Scholar's Table above the Swan. His toast is is genuinely brilliant. It moves from Homer to the geography of joy, and the room gives him exactly the silence he deserves.Then, after the silence, something is different.He begins a sentence he does not finish. He reaches for a c...

It is a Tuesday evening in the university choir. Lachie Drummond is twenty-two years old, a final-year computer science student, and he sings second tenor with an instinctive sense of line that the conductor acknowledges by directing the rest of the section to listen to him. He is also two moves ahead of everyone in every room he enters. He has been working on a thesis about seams — the invisible joins in institutional data architecture, the places where different systems meet.At e...

The lighthouse at Lassiter Point has been decommissioned since 1986. The Heritage Council believes the shire owns it. The shire believes the Heritage Council does. No one has paid for maintenance since 2003, and the Fresnel lens has been sitting in the dark ever since.Until it wasn't.At two in the morning, the lamp comes on. Forty minutes exactly. Old Mossy, who has sat on the Rockingham seawall long enough to remember how the coast used to sound, has seen it before — three...

When a development application appears on the chandlery door at the south end of the Bent Street foreshore, the Safety Bay Six recognise the signs: a heritage-listed building, a compressed public comment period, and a sub-floor excavation scheduled in six weeks. What the application doesn't mention — and what Barry, Annie, Rose, Vic, Kath, and Pip are determined to protect — is the hollow floor that Pip documented two years ago, a stone chamber beneath it that pre-dates the Australian colo...

Behind a painted Japanese flat in the stage-left corridor, Rupert Dalloway is dead.He was the best director the Riverside Gilbert and Sullivan Society had ever had. He was also, in the considered opinion of nearly everyone who had worked with him across the previous three months, the kind of man who uses other people's finest work as raw material for his own brilliance — and calls the result a creative dialogue with the material.Dr Alex Moreton, Classics lecturer at a unive...

When a small, ancient Irishman appears on a school fence post eating a cheese sandwich, entirely invisible to almost everyone — fifteen-year-old Immie Whitfield is not entirely surprised. She has always been able to draw characters who step off the page and speak to her. She has always known the world was stranger than it appeared.She doesn't know her estranged grandfather is a magician. She doesn't know that an organisation called the Collectors has been watching her fami...