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Author : Thomas E. Dewey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Journey to the Far Pacific written by Thomas E. Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim McEnery
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451659148
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Hell in the Pacific written by Jim McEnery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and horror McErery’s Rifle Company—the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division, made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific—fought in some of the most ferocious battles of the war. In searing detail, the author takes us back to Guadalcanal, where American forces first turned the tide against the Japanese; Cape Gloucester, where 1,300 Marines were killed or wounded; and bloody Peleliu, where McEnery assumed command of the company and helped hasten the final defeat of the Japanese garrison after weeks of torturous cave-to-cave fighting. McEnery’s story is a no-holds-barred, grunt’s-eye view of the sacrifices, suffering, and raw courage of the men in the foxholes, locked in mortal combat with an implacable enemy sworn to fight to the death. From bayonet charges and hand-to-hand combat to midnight banzai attacks and the loss of close buddies, the rifle squad leader spares no details, chronicling his odyssey from boot camp through twenty-eight months of hellish combat until his eventual return home. He has given us an unforgettable portrait of men at war.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241964210
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Happy Isles of Oceania written by Paul Theroux and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Theroux invites us to join him on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these isles. Theroux is a mesmerizing narrator – brilliant, witty, keenly perceptive as he floats through Gauguin landscapes, sails in the wake of Captain Cook and recalls the bewitching tales of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson. Alone in his kayak, paddling to seldom visited shores, he glides through time and space, discovering a world of islands, their remarkable people, and in turn, happiness. ‘A sharp, fascinating and highly entertaining book ... Theroux at his best’ Daily Telegraph.
Author : Jim Patryla
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411671309
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY BACK TO MARINELAND OF THE PACIFIC written by Jim Patryla and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book chronicles the history of world famous Marineland of the Pacific and features over 200 rare color and black & white photographs. A number of these historic Marineland images were selected from the author's own personal archive of original photographs, including the only known full color photographs taken of the actual birth of the world's very first killer whale ever to be conceived and born in captivity. Marineland of the Pacific opened in 1954 and during its reign as one of the premier tourist attractions in Southern California it managed to educate and entertain millions. 33 years later Marineland's controversial closing outraged a community and the world lost a truly remarkable institution. This one-of-a-kind collector's edition of facts and photographs will help to preserve Marineland's legacy of compassion, education and discovery.
Author : Tanya Storch
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754606673
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Religions and Missionaries Around the Pacific, 1500-1900 written by Tanya Storch and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious cultural exchanges around the Pacific in the period 1500-1900, relating these to economic and political developments and to the expansion of communication across the area. It brings together twenty-two pieces, from diaries of religious exiles and missionary field observations, to studies from a variety of academic disciplines, so enabling a multitude of voices to be heard. The articles are grouped in sections dealing with the Islamic period, the Iberian Catholic period, the Jewish diaspora, the Russian Orthodox church, the epoch of Protestant culture and finally Asian immigrant religions in the West; a substantial introduction contextualizes these chapters in terms of both historical and contemporary approaches.
Author : Brandon Presser
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541758595
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)
Download or read book The Far Land written by Brandon Presser and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape; a real-life Lord of the Flies, rife with depravity and deception. Seven generations later, the island’s diabolical past still looms over its 48 residents; descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families; two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. While on the island, he pieced together Pitcairn’s full story: an operatic saga that holds all who have visited in its mortal clutch—even the author. Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty, offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it’s not so different from our own.
Author : Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Our Journey in the Pacific written by Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rob Wilson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325239
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Reimagining the American Pacific written by Rob Wilson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the makings of the "American Pacific" locality/location/identity as space and ground of cultural production, and the way this region can be linked to "Asia" and "Pacific" as well as to "American mainland"
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Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Michigan Alumnus written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1952 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: "Some Michigan books."
Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541620054
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Voyagers written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.
Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393083179
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) written by Ian W. Toll and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
Author : Agnes Deans Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New North written by Agnes Deans Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barney Scout Mann
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680513222
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Journeys North written by Barney Scout Mann and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.
Author : Kevin Reilly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 144221354X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Human Journey written by Kevin Reilly and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Human Journey offers a truly concise yet satisfyingly full history of the world from ancient times to the present. Its themes include not only the great questions of the humanities—nature versus nurture, the history and meaning of human variation, the sources of wealth, and causes of revolution—but also the major transformations in human history: agriculture, cities, iron, writing, universal religions, global trade, industrialization, popular government, justice, and equality. Beginning with our most important questions and searching all of our past for answers, this is world history in a grand humanistic tradition.
Author : Elaine Raynolds
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1622955552
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Journey to the Pacific Rim written by Elaine Raynolds and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committed to seeing the world, Elaine Raynolds and her husband, Arthur, embarked on yet another world tour, a Pacific cruise, visiting Japan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Western Samoa, and Hawaii. Beginning their journey with a train ride from North Carolina to Seattle, Elaine and Arthur carefully filled their suitcases and boxes with all they would need for their eighty-day trip. Packed with photos, Journey to the Pacific Rim offers a delightful portrait of one couple's cruise across the date line into varied locales. From the nightly entertainment aboard the ship to encounters with koalas and kangaroos, Elaine Raynolds saw it all. Discover the world of the Journey to the Pacific Rim through the journals of a world traveler.
Author : Tom Koppel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789820108882
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Mystery Islands written by Tom Koppel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than 20,000 islands in the Pacific; fewer than half of them are inhabited. Some are too small or too barren to sustain human life, others are subject to the vagaries of the tides or without fresh water. But many uninhabited Pacific islands have supported life, and been home to Pacific island cultures and societies only to disappear seemingly in an instant--the so-called Mystery Islands. Tom Koppel's personal odyssey across a vast ocean and through time explores new theories and discoveries surrounding life throughout the Pacific. From celestial navigation and the sweep of the ocean currents, the hardships of survival and settlement, to the rich tapestry of Pacific Island customs and traditions, Mystery Islands shows how new archaeological findings have changed our entire of when and how the Pacific islands were first discovered and settled, beginning over 3,000 years ago.
Author : Eugene McCann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641333481
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Journey of My Life written by Eugene McCann and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of my daily life. I was inspired by St. Benedict teachings that you really look at yourself you will see yourself and others this is where you get woke up and you begin to change your life and this is where Benedictine spirituality comes in.
