They ended up in a tiny settlement called Whatuwhiwhi.
That long-suffering traveller Chekhov described a cockroach-infested room in the jailhouse where he spent the night in a tiny settlement on Sakhalin Island: It seemed as though the walls and ceiling were covered with black crepe, which stirred as if blown by a wind.
This début novel is set in a tiny settlement in Canada's coastal north, where nature governs life: "Men of the cove generally were kings outside their houses — kings of the grounds and sheds and fences — and the women were queens of inner rooms and painted sills".
For example, when Israeli authorities suspended plans for permanent homes in Maskiot, a tiny settlement near Jordan, in 2007, two American nonprofits -- the One Israel Fund and Christian Friends of Israeli Communities --raised thousandshofsandollarsollars to help erect temporary structures, keeping the community going until officials lifted the building ban.
For example, when Israeli authorities suspended plans for permanent homes in Maskiot, a tiny settlement near Jordan, in 2007, two American nonprofits — the One Israel Fund and Christian Friends of Israeli Communities —raised tens of thousands of dollars to help erect temporary structures, keeping the community going until officials lifted the building ban.
"We have to bring bottled water to wash our hands and our instruments," said Spring, who serves as coordinator of a clinic in San Telmo, a tiny settlement about 100 miles south of Ensenada.
He waved me down, hustled me into a gold Jeep Cherokee, and in 10 minutes we were in Gregory Town, a tiny settlement with a few restaurants, bars, a gift shop and a liquor store, which happened to be the only place to swipe a credit card.
As 75-year-old villager Antônio Gomes told us stories of growing up in Boca do Mamirauá, a tiny settlement in the northern Amazon rainforest, I tried to ignore the tiny blue flies biting through my trousers.
She was born Alberta Stewart to sharecroppers on Dec. 4, 1906, in Danley's Crossroads, a tiny settlement built around a sawmill 70 miles south of Montgomery.
Many narwhal reports proved contradictory, he found, and "my interest spiraled like the tooth". In 2000, Dr. Nweeia decided to investigate the animal closely and first trekked to its icy habitat in 2002, going to Pond Inlet, a tiny settlement at the northern tip of Baffin Island.
A young art historian called Ingi Friedlander (the names in this novel are often loudly symbolic) sets out from Cape Town for a tiny settlement called Years-onend, in the remote, arid Karoo.
