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Book Synopsis History of Micronesia: Exploration of the Caroline Islands, 1696-1709 by : Rodrigue Lévesque
Download or read book History of Micronesia: Exploration of the Caroline Islands, 1696-1709 written by Rodrigue Lévesque and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Micronesia: Exploration of the Caroline Islands by : Rodrigue Lévesque
Download or read book History of Micronesia: Exploration of the Caroline Islands written by Rodrigue Lévesque and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploration of the Caroline Islands, 1696-1709 by : Rodrigue Lévesque
Download or read book Exploration of the Caroline Islands, 1696-1709 written by Rodrigue Lévesque and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Micronesia: Exploration of the Caroline Islands, 1696-1709 by : Rodrigue Lévesque
Download or read book History of Micronesia: Exploration of the Caroline Islands, 1696-1709 written by Rodrigue Lévesque and published by Levesque Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of a series on the history of the North Pacific. It contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from rare books, translated from various languages.
Book Synopsis The First Taint of Civilization by : Francis X. Hezel
Download or read book The First Taint of Civilization written by Francis X. Hezel and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hezel writes clearly and with erudition and commands an impressive body of information. His book is a tour de force.... Not only will it be read eagerly by Pacific scholars, but it should find a wide audience among well-educated Micronesians hungry for greater understanding of how their islands have become ensnared in world geopolitics.” —Ethnohistory
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands by : Max Quanchi
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands written by Max Quanchi and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Book Synopsis Upon a Stone Altar by : David L. Hanlon
Download or read book Upon a Stone Altar written by David L. Hanlon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon a Stone Altar tells the history of a remarkable people who inhabit the island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Since the beginnings of intensive foreign contact, Pohnpei has endured numerous disruptive conflicts as well as attempts at colonial domination. Pohnpeians creatively adapted to change and today live successfully in a modern world not totally of their own making. Hanlon uses the vast body of oral tradition to relate the early history of Pohnpei, including the story of the building of a huge complex of artificial stone islets, Nan Madol.
Book Synopsis The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution by : Rollin H. Baker
Download or read book The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution written by Rollin H. Baker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution is a book by Rollin H. Baker. It examines the birdlife of Micronesia from a historical viewpoint and takes a look at its evolution into current biological trends.
Book Synopsis Exploration in the Caroline Islands by :
Download or read book Exploration in the Caroline Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Micronesia by : Paul Rainbird
Download or read book The Archaeology of Micronesia written by Paul Rainbird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Book Synopsis East Caroline Islands by : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Download or read book East Caroline Islands written by United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Micronesia in Depth by : Peace Peace Corps
Download or read book Micronesia in Depth written by Peace Peace Corps and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Micronesia is derived from the Greek words mikros, "small," and neso, "island." Until recently, the many distinct languages of the Micronesian islands existed only in oral form. Thus, much of the early history of these islands had to be derived from archaeological artifacts. It is thought that more than 3,000 years ago, Austronesian speaking Micronesian people entered the Pacific from Southeast Asia. These seafaring people probably first settled in the Marianas (Guam and Saipan) and then the Western Carolines, including Palau and Yap. Later, migrations from the southern Melanesian islands brought settlers to Kosrae, Chuuk, and Pohnpei. The "outer islands" of Micronesia were likely settled later, as their languages are dissimilar to those of the main islands. Micronesians are known as great sea voyagers and sailed huge outrigger canoes over distances of thousands of miles, using traditional navigation techniques, dependent on knowledge of the movements of currents, swells, winds, and birds. Early Micronesians lived a subsistence lifestyle based on fishing, gathering, and agriculture. Legends of ancient civilization in the Caroline Islands tell of an ancient empire, about which little is known. The remnants of magnificent stone fortresses constructed from basalt pillars in Pohnpei (Nan Madol) and in Kosrae (Lela Ruins) are thought to date back to A.D. 400. Yapese stone money (stone discs as large as 12 feet in diameter that can weigh up to 12 tons) was mined as far away as Palau and transported by canoe to Yap. Islands in the archipelagoes known as Micronesia were among the first in the Pacific to be "discovered" by European explorers of the 16th century. The islands were grouped into three categories: the Marshall Islands, the Eastern Caroline Islands (Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Chuuk) and the Western Caroline Islands (Yap and Palau). The first known European contact dates back to 1521, during Ferdinand Magellan's quest to find a trade route to the Spice Islands of the east, traveling west from Spain. The Spaniards developed an indirect trade route to Asia: across the Atlantic to South America, across South America via land, and onward into the Pacific. In the 18th and 19th centuries, whalers, traders, and missionaries found their way to the islands. The missionaries succeeded in creating what are today entirely Christian societies on all the major islands and some outer islands. Micronesians retain little memory of earlier belief systems. The islands of the FSM and Palau share similar colonial histories under Spain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Spanish influence in Micronesia expanded in the 19th century, but following its defeat in the Spanish- American War, Spain sold Palau and most of the Caroline Islands (which later became FSM) to Germany in 1899. The Germans were interested in the islands to support trade in coconut products. Their use of forced labor on the island of Pohnpei culminated in the assassination of the German governor by a young Micronesian. Many Pohnpeian men were then exiled to Palau; other Micronesian men were transported from the outer islands of Pohnpei and Chuuk. The Germans deserted Micronesia in World War I, which allowed an easy takeover by the Japanese. Japan built large military bases on some of the islands and developed sugar mills in the Marianas; bauxite and phosphate mines in Palau; and fishing and shell production throughout the region. The Japanese encouraged emigration to Micronesia, and Micronesians were used as low-level manual laborers.
Book Synopsis History of Micronesia: Carolinians drift to Guam, 1715-1728 by : Rodrigue Lévesque
Download or read book History of Micronesia: Carolinians drift to Guam, 1715-1728 written by Rodrigue Lévesque and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Road of the Winds by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Download or read book On the Road of the Winds written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.
Book Synopsis The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by : Geoffrey Irwin
Download or read book The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific written by Geoffrey Irwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of navigation, Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly downwind in search of the unknown, Pacific Islanders expanded settlement by the cautious strategy of exploring upwind, so as to ease their safe return. The author has tested this hypothesis against the chronological data from archaeological investigation, with a computer simulation of demographic and exploration patterns and by sailing throughout the region himself.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Micronesia by : Gilad James, PhD
Download or read book Introduction to Micronesia written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micronesia is a region in the Pacific Ocean that is composed of thousands of small islands. These islands are divided into four groups: Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, and the Marshall Islands. The region is known for its diverse cultures, languages, and breathtaking natural beauty. Although it is one of the least populated regions on earth, its people have a rich history and unique identity. The region is home to many species of plants and animals that are endemic to the area, meaning they can only be found in Micronesia. Tourism is one of the major industries in Micronesia, with visitors drawn to its crystal clear waters, coral reefs, and exotic marine life. Despite its natural beauty, however, the region faces many challenges such as climate change, rising sea levels, and issues with waste management. Nonetheless, the people and governments of Micronesia are working together to address these challenges and protect the region's unique culture and natural resources for generations to come.
Book Synopsis West Caroline Islands by : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Download or read book West Caroline Islands written by United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: