{"id":1128,"date":"2009-06-24T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/petitesbullesdailleurs\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2017-06-18T20:41:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T18:41:26","slug":"besoin-diles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/besoin-diles-20090624\/","title":{"rendered":"Need for islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, you love islands, here or elsewhere, dive into this book: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sEoPro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Need for islands<\/em><\/a>by the geographer Louis Brigand. The man is a scientist, but it is as a passionate person, as a lover, that he talks about the islands he visited in the course of his research.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Starting with the Breton islands, and the one of Beniguet in particular, in the Mol\u00e8ne archipelago. I invite you to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouest-france.fr\/actu\/actuDet.php?abo=640433&amp;serv=10&amp;idCla=3639&amp;idDoc=977160&amp;?utm_source=ofmnewsletter&amp;utm_medium=lettredinformation&amp;utm_campaign=magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this report that my colleague Marc Pennec devoted to him in <em>Ouest-France<\/em><\/a>. Enough to fill up with invigorating marine freshness!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Need for Islands, by Louis Brigand.\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sEoPro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1152 alignleft\" title=\"See the summary, on the website of Stock editions.\" src=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/besoindiles.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Need Islands, by Louis Brigand, Stock Editions.\" width=\"220\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Need for islands<\/em><br \/>\nStock editions<br \/>\n252 pages, 18 \u20ac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Louis Brigand is a professor at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www-iuem.univ-brest.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Institute of the Sea<\/a>in Brest, at the University of Western Brittany (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.univ-brest.fr\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UBO<\/a>). He is one of the great specialists in island issues. His job as a teacher-researcher leads him to travel from one end of the planet to the other, from island to island... Another \"dream job\" for globetrotters?<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>No Asian islands in the memories evoked in his book. But he has the right words to say the irresistible attraction that islands have on our imagination (remember <em>Treasure Island<\/em> of Stevenson!), to talk about the beauty of insularity, the happiness that consists in letting the days go by while looking at the sea... Small extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finally, I prefer to move regularly from one island to another, and thus be itinerant and nomadic, rather than fixed and sedentary. As a result, I have the impression of having chosen to live in an immense archipelago, to travel permanently from one house to another, and to share my life between spaces that come together, forming a whole from which I draw energy and a certain resourcefulness. <strong>(P.67)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don't feel anything else, at the idea of leaving again, very soon, for <a href=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/borneo-malaysia-indonesia-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">distant archipelagos<\/a>. The Perhentian Islands, then Borneo, Sipadan and Mabul, Derawan and Sangalaki ...<\/p>\n<p>I'm going there in a tourist context, for vacations, and I won't be in a situation of complete isolation, far from it. But I like being surrounded by water, having no other border around me than the sea. Contemplating the horizon clears my head. Many people feel locked up, a bit like prisoners, on an island. For me, it's the opposite: staying on an island frees me, soothes me. I leave the floor to Louis Brigand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe that's what happiness is all about! An island.<br \/>\nI think isolation is something that happens in the head. There are millions of guys who live in dramatic isolation, in their apartment or in the city, in front of their TV or their electronic games! I may be isolated geographically, but not at all mentally. On the contrary, the island with its closed borders is a mirror that reflects in depth and amplifies the things of life. <strong>(P.14)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, my! This book is perfect for me. I am in dire need of islands.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, you love islands, whether here or elsewhere, take a look at this book: Besoin d'\u00eeles, by geographer Louis Brigand. The man is a scientist, but it's as a passionate lover that he talks about the islands he visited in the course of his research.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tpgb_global_settings":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[25,30],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entre-deux-voyages","tag-ici","tag-livres"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/alor-035.jpg?wsr","tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/alor-035.jpg?wsr",800,533,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/alor-035-700x700.jpg?wsr",700,700,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/alor-035-250x250.jpg?wsr",250,250,true],"medium":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/alor-035-390x260.jpg?wsr",390,260,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/alor-035-770x513.jpg?wsr",770,513,true],"large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/alor-035-780x520.jpg?wsr",780,520,true],"default":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"24 June 2009","get_modified_date":"18 June 2017","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":8,"name":"Entre deux voyages","slug":"entre-deux-voyages","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Eh oui ! 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