The Lagoon
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| Originally published | January 1897 |
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| Authors | Joseph Conrad |
| Genres | Short Story |
| Published in | The Cornhill Magazine |
| Publication type | Magazine |
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| ID | 1176466 |
About The Lagoon
"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan", who is travelling through an Indonesian rainforest and is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay friend named Arsat.
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... Prof Dituri - who also served in the Navy for 28 years - is teaching his biomedical engineering classes online while he lives in The Lagoon, according to the University of South Florida...
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... On the other side of The Lagoon is a new national rail line connecting Lagos with the city of Ibadan via a stop in Abeokuta, and a landmark bridge now leads to the upmarket Lekki Peninsula, where upwardly mobile young Nigerians in the tech sector live in swanky apartments...
Flooded Venice battles new tidal surge
... Mr Conte said the government would accelerate the Mose project - construction of a hydraulic barrier system to protect The Lagoon from rising sea levels and winter storms...
Venice floods: Italy to declare state of emergency over damage
... He said the government would accelerate the building of structural defences for The Lagoon city, referring specifically to the so-called Mose project - a hydraulic barrier system to shut off The Lagoon in the event of rising sea levels and winter storms...
Venice floods: Italian city hit by highest tide in 50 years
... Two people died on the island of Pellestrina, a thin strip of land that separates The Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea...
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... It was found just over four miles (7km) from The Lagoon where the man was last seen...
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... Mothers and young in The Lagoon will actively seek contact with people for a head scratch or back rub...
Venice bans large cruise ships from the historic centre
... But conservationists say the government s plans are sufficient to prevent, under water erosion and pollution in The Lagoon of the city...
Flooded Venice battles new tidal surge
Flooded Venice has been hit by a new High Tide of 154cm (5ft), giving residents no respite from a crisis costing Italy millions of euros.
World-famous St Mark's Square, a magnet for tourists, has been closed, and schools are shut for a Third Day .
The Canal city's famous waterbuses - the vaporetti - are not running.
The 187cm peak on Tuesday was the highest level in More Than 50 Years , damaging monuments, shops and homes. More Than 80% of The City was flooded.
The government declared a state of emergency in the Unesco world heritage site.
Residents with flood-damaged homes will get up to €5,000 (£4,300; $5,500), and businesses up to €20,000 in compensation.
Desperate Measures as water seeps everywhereThe BBC's Jenny Hill in Venice writes:
The First flood sirens went off at dawn, an eerie sound rising over the ancient bridges and waterways of The City .
Within a couple of hours, the murky green water of the Grand Canal had risen level with its bank, slapping over the paving stones as boats went past.
Nearby streets quickly flooded. Tourists, shoes covered in plastic bags, carried their luggage along raised narrow trestle walkways, which The Authorities have put up to keep The Pedestrian traffic moving.
On either side, dirty water continued to rise. At ground level, in their rubber wellies, business owners were already starting to operate small pumps. Many had raised The Flood barriers across their Doorways - apparently to little effect. Water was already seeping up to ankle height in The Souvenir shops and cafes.
The Grand Canal 's water is now level with the Pavementits commercial activities on its knees," Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte , who visited Venice on Wednesday, wrote in a Facebook post (in Italian).
The City has about 50,000 residents, but about 20m tourists visit every year.
Hotels were forced to cancel reservations, some reportedly as far ahead as December, as photos of Venice underwater spread across The World .
The tides have been worsened by sirocco winds blowing from Africa, and there are fears that Global Warming is increasing the frequency and severity of such floods.
Waters are expected to recede over the weekend.
Wellington boots are now essential footwear in VeniceThe government says will not be operational until 2021 - yet work began on it back in 2003.
Fondamenta Zattere - a long, much-loved waterfront area where tourists enjoy strolling - is also under water.
The City is made up of More Than 100 islands inside a lagoon off the north-east coast of Italy. It suffers flooding on a yearly basis.
The government has pledged to release €20m in aid for Venice.
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said The Task of repairing The City would be huge, adding that More Than 50 churches had been damaged.
Only once since official records began in 1923 has The Tide been higher than it reached This Week - hitting 194cm in 1966.
A flooded bookshop: Workers are trying to dry out damp printsfor The Flood , saying the impact was "huge" and would leave "a permanent mark". Strong winds lashing the area are contributing to The Crisis .
Mr Conte said the government would accelerate the Mose project - Construction of a hydraulic barrier system to protect The Lagoon from rising sea levels and winter Storms .
St Mark's Basilica - dating back to the 11Th Century - was hit by The Flood Shops appear marooned by the floodwatersitaly, floods, venice, severe weather, sea level rise, climate change
Source of news: bbc.com