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Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book The Isles of the Pacific Or Sketches from the South Seas written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Francis
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Download or read book The Isles of the Pacific Or Sketches from the South Seas written by B. Francis and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Francis
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Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book The Isles of the Pacific, Or, Sketches from the South Seas written by B. Francis and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Francis
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ISBN 13 : 9780243607860
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Isles of the Pacific written by B. Francis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Francis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385319722
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Isles of the Pacific; or, Sketches from the South Seas written by B. Francis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : B. Francis
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Download or read book Isles of the Pacific written by B. Francis and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. FRANCIS
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365503361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Isles of the Pacific written by B. FRANCIS and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Isles of the Pacific: Or, Sketches From the South Seas Such have been'the day-dreams of the poet in many lands. Childhood, full of unconscious poetry, revels in stories of distant island homes, island mysteries, island researches. Nothing In the Arabian Nights' attracts its eager fancy more than the story of Sindbad the Sailor, with his strange experiences of wonder-teeming isles. Robinson Crusoe will be a fearful joy to the young while the English language lasts. Sir Edward Seward's Narrative, Penrose's Journal, a delightful book, now, alas-l out of print, and Masterman Ready, all recognised and ministered to this youthful passion for island adventures, and all were popular accordingly. The present volume is an attempt to convey to young readers a fair notion of the isles of the Pacific Ocean, of their principal clusters, and of the features which distinguish several of the most remarkable among them. They differ from each other so widely in climate, natural features, social and political condition, that even a few sketches, if tolerably faithful, will at least have the advantage of variety; while they may also serve to clear up a certain amount of confusion as to groups and races which exists, I believe, in young minds generally, and is not rare among children of a larger growth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : B. Francis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330019788
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Isles of the Pacific written by B. Francis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Isles of the Pacific: Or, Sketches From the South Seas There is something in the thought of distant islands which has always had strong attractions for the human mind. From the earliest ages they have figured in the visions of bards as favoured regions of bliss and beauty. In the prophetic utterances of the Hebrew seers the kings of the isles are described as laying their treasures at the feet of the promised Messiah - the multitude of the isles as rejoicing in Jehovah's sovereignty. When we look to the early records of Greece, we not only find her "isles" the actual cradle of law and poesy, we see also that the Greek poets sang of islands yet brighter and lovelier, to which they looked westward through a haze of mysterious legends, as scenes of nature's most lavish bounty: "Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea." When Homer, in his wild and wondrous "Odyssey," told of "the ever-blooming gardens of Aleinous," and the glories of joyous Phæacia, he had doubtless in view not only the rich vegetation and genial clime of Corfu, as described by travellers, but fancy pictures of happy isles beyond the pillars of Hercules, where the Hesperian fruit might be plucked without fear of the "red-combed dragon" barring the entrance to that western paradise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691197
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)
Download or read book The Trembling of a Leaf written by William Somerset Maugham and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1916, William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) travelled to the Pacific to research his novel "The Moon and Sixpence," based on the life of Paul Gauguin. This was the first of those journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which were to establish Maugham forever in the popular imagination as the chronicler of the last days of colonialism in India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific, although the books on which this reputation rests represent only a fraction of his output.---Maugham reused elements of his Pacific diaries in "The Trembling of a Leaf" (1921), which contains one of his most recognized stories, "Rain," adapted to the stage by John Colton and Clemence Randolph in 1922.
Author : Alison Ballance
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ISBN 13 : 9781552976098
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book South Sea Islands written by Alison Ballance and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and ecosystems of 14 South Sea Islands: Easter Island, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Madagascar, French Polynesia, Galapagos, Komodo, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Tasmania, Lord Howe, Phillip, and New Caledonia.
Author : Bronwen Douglas
Publisher : Pacific Presences
ISBN 13 : 9789088905742
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Collecting in the South Sea written by Bronwen Douglas and published by Pacific Presences. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La Pérouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java, its collections and records were subsequently scattered or lost. The book's core is a richly illustrated examination, analysis, and catalog of a large array of ethnographic objects collected during the voyage, later dispersed, and recently identified in museums in France, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. The focus on artifacts is informed by a broad conception of collecting as grounded in encounters or exchanges with Indigenous protagonists and also as materialized in other genres--written accounts, vocabularies, and visual representations (drawings, engravings, and maps). Historically, the book outlines the antecedents, occurrences, and aftermath of the voyage, including its location within the classic era of European scientific voyaging (1766-1840) and within contemporary colonial networks. Particular chapters trace the ambiguous histories of the extant collections. Ethnographically, contributors are alert to local settings, relationships, practices, and values; to Indigenous uses and significance of objects; to the reciprocal, dialogic nature of collecting; to local agency or innovation in exchanges; and to present implications of objects and their histories, especially for modern scholars and artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
Author : Lowell Don Holmes
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574091304
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Treasured Islands written by Lowell Don Holmes and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only the British writer himself, already famous for novels and poems, but his family with him took to the sea between 1888 and 1890 to search Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia for Robert's health and adventure. Writer and film maker Holmes (emeritus anthropology, Wichita State U. Kansas) has
Author : Elisabeth Hodermarsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300141351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)
Download or read book John La Farge's Second Paradise written by Elisabeth Hodermarsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume goes well beyond the scope of the typical exhibition catalogue and becomes, in the end, the first great study of La Farge's late South Seas works, and one of the first comprehensive overviews of the activities of Western artists in the South Seas in the late 19th century. The catalogue's (and exhibition's) title refers to La Farge's first great artistic inspiration (1850s-60s) being the area around Paradise Beach in Newport, RI, and his second inspiration (1890s) being a trip to the South Seas. A number of important scholars have contributed essays to this volume. Among them are the longtime La Farge scholar Henry Adams, who contributes an essay titled "John La Farge's South Seas Sketchbooks: Their Nature and Their Significance" (along with an inventory of the South Seas sketchbooks); and Elizabeth Childs, who contributes an essay comparing the activities of Paul Gauguin and John La Farge during their respective sojourns in Tahiti (it turns out that Gauguin arrived in Tahiti only a week or so after La Farge left it for Fiji). This is an attractively produced volume in square quarto format, with 160 color illustrations and many more in black and white. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by M. W. Sullivan.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book In the South Seas written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968685
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Nanyo-orientalism written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K.R. Howe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000858073
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Where the Waves Fall written by K.R. Howe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where the Waves Fall (1984) centres the stories of the Pacific Islanders and how they were affected by European explorers and colonisers in this unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands. It follows the fortunes of the seafarers who discovered island after island in the world’s largest ocean, traces the development of their civilisations and examines in depth the interaction between them and the newcomers – European explorers, traders, beachcombers, missionaries, merchants – who from the sixteenth century came in an increasing series of waves. The book’s framework enables the author to throw new light on hitherto isolated events. Novel suggestions are advanced as to why some islands became ‘kingdoms’ in the earlier years of European contact and why others did not, and of how and why missionaries were accepted on some islands but not on others. Nor does Professor Howe shrink from provocative and at times controversial arguments concerning the ambitions and strategies of island leaders and indeed the overall nature and extent of the initiatives taken by the islanders.
Author : Beatrice Grimshaw
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Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book In the Strange South Seas written by Beatrice Grimshaw and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
