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Max Schlemmer, Hawaii's King of Laysan Island

Author : Tom Unger
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595299881
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Max Schlemmer, Hawaii's King of Laysan Island written by Tom Unger and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of Max Schlemmer is powerful, compelling non-fiction. Max is a "renaissance" man who survives the danger of whaling in the frigid North Pacific, works on various Hawaiian sugar plantations, captains sailing vessels, pioneers the guano business on Laysan Island, takes on the duties of mid-wife, is a Honolulu Police captain, and a motorman with Honolulu Rapid Transit Co., and always a man devoted to family and country. Max is also an entrepreneur. In his early years in Hawaii, he gained "squatter's rights" to Laysan Island. Later he established his home on this tiny, distant, and isolated island. Though many business ventures failed, he dreamed of a "kingdom" on Laysan Island. Perhaps he dreamed and schemed also about the vast riches to be gained in the bird plumage trade. Max Schlemmer, Hawaii's King of Laysan Island takes place during an interesting period of Hawaiian history. Max is involved in rioting which leads to the overthrow of the monarchy and to Hawaii becoming the Territory of Hawaii. Max is a constant gadfly to the local authorities; his actions often lead them into uncharted waters and reverberates finally in Washington D.C. Max Schlemmer, Hawaii's King of Laysan Island is also the story of the life and death of an island.

Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean

Author : Akitoshi Hiraoka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811051402
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean written by Akitoshi Hiraoka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese “closed-door” policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the nineteenth century. The birds’ plumage was of high quality and sold at quite a good price in Europe. The Japanese realized the advantage of this global trade, and their desire to capture albatross motivated them to advance into the Pacific. The exploration of the uninhabited islands had become a fast-moving trend, defined by the author as the “Bird Rush”. As a consequence, the advance into the Pacific by the Japanese resulted in the expansion of Japanese territory. The author has interpreted this Japanese movement into the Pacific by making use of the framework of three distinct shifts: in the aim of their actions from birds to guano / phosphate ore, in the agents of action from individual speculators to commercial capital and then to monopolistic capital, and from the sea near Japan to the wider Pacific. This concept can be termed “a view of history centered on the albatross”.

Isles of Refuge

Author : Mark J. Rauzon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824846265
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Isles of Refuge written by Mark J. Rauzon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Isles of Refuge, the first book solely devoted to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, field biologist Mark Rauzon shares his extensive, first-hand knowledge of their natural history while providing an engaging narrative of his travels. Braving seasickness, bad weather, and biting bird ticks, he journeyed from Nihoa to Kure to study and photograph plants and animals for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: rare palms, sharks, turtles, seals, and thousands of birds--finches, terns, petrels, noddies, shearwaters, curlews, boobies, tropicbirds, ducks, and albatrosses, or "gooneys," famed throughout the Pacific for their flying prowess and bizarre breeding rituals. Isolation and access restrictions have led to the recovery of many of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands' animal and plant populations to pre-exploitation levels, but they have also resulted in the general public's ignorance of the islands and their ecosystems. Informative and enjoyable, Isles of Refuge invites readers to learn more about the history and natural wonders of this invaluable resource.

The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds

Author : Arthur G. Sharp
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476693285
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds written by Arthur G. Sharp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes--and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable enterprise, causing the extinction of some entire species and the endangerment of others. Lawmakers and bird aficionados were slow to react to the effects of this practice, which went on almost unabated for a quarter of a century. Then, noted naturalists like George Bird Grinnell, William T. Hornaday, and President Theodore Roosevelt, who recognized the economic benefits birds provided, banded together to pass meaningful legislation to protect them and to curb the production of murderous millinery. This book explores the troubled history of millinery and its complicated relationship to birds and conservation. It explores why it took so long for the slaughter to end and how the efforts of individuals and groups brought about change.

Conservation of Marine Birds

Author : Lindsay Young
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323885403
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Conservation of Marine Birds written by Lindsay Young and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation of Marine Birds is the first book to outline and synthesize the myriad of threats faced by one of the most imperiled groups of birds on earth. With more than half of all 346 seabird species worldwide experiencing population declines and 29% of species recognized as globally threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the timing to determine solutions to threats could not be more urgent. Written by a diverse team of international experts on marine birds, this book explores the environmental and biogeographical factors that influence seabird conservation and provides concrete recommendations for mounting climate change issues. This book will be an important resource for researchers and conservationists, as well as ecologists and students who want to understand seabirds, the threats they are facing, and tactics to help conserve and protect them. - Outlines both threats and solutions in the marine and terrestrial realm - Synthesizes information to provide a comprehensive strategy moving forward, especially considering climate change - Created by a team of experts with the latest and most comprehensive knowledge of seabird conservation

Japan's Ocean Borderlands

Author : Paul Kreitman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108807976
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Japan's Ocean Borderlands written by Paul Kreitman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman shows how the politics of conservation have entangled with the politics of sovereignty since the emergence of the modern Japanese state in the mid-nineteenth century. Using case studies ranging from Hawai'i to the Bonin Islands to the Senkaku (Ch: Diaoyu) Isles to the South China Sea, he explores how bird islands on the distant margins of the Japanese archipelago and beyond transformed from sites of resource extraction to outposts of empire and from wartime battlegrounds to nature reserves. This study examines how interactions between birds, bird products, bureaucrats, speculators, sailors, soldiers, scientists and conservationists shaped ongoing claims to sovereignty over oceanic spaces. It considers what the history of desert islands shows us about imperial and post-imperial power, the web of political, economic and ecological connections between islands and oceans, and about the relationship between sovereignty, territory and environment in the modern world.

Ten Thousand Birds

Author : Tim Birkhead
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691151970
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Birds written by Tim Birkhead and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated history of modern ornithology Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked. This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the nineteenth century when ornithology was a museum-based discipline focused almost exclusively on the anatomy, taxonomy, and classification of dead birds. It describes how in the early 1900s pioneering individuals such as Erwin Stresemann, Ernst Mayr, and Julian Huxley recognized the importance of studying live birds in the field, and how this shift thrust ornithology into the mainstream of the biological sciences. The book tells the stories of eccentrics like Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a pathological liar who stole specimens from museums and quite likely murdered his wife, and describes the breathtaking insights and discoveries of ambitious and influential figures such as David Lack, Niko Tinbergen, Robert MacArthur, and others who through their studies of birds transformed entire fields of biology. Ten Thousand Birds brings this history vividly to life through the work and achievements of those who advanced the field. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews, this fascinating book reveals how research on birds has contributed more to our understanding of animal biology than the study of just about any other group of organisms.

The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist

Author : Leopold G. Blackman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist written by Leopold G. Blackman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All about Hawaii

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All about Hawaii written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Philatelist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Philatelist written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Natural History of Lisianski Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Author : Roger B. Clapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Lisianski Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands written by Roger B. Clapp and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradise of the Pacific

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environmental Biology

Author : Terry Hilleman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Biology written by Terry Hilleman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the conditions necessary to support life in a wide range of environments, this book investigates the parameters required and the destruction thereof.

Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions

Author : Peter Kimpton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473881315
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions written by Peter Kimpton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon the authors large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era covering the hat fashions and social changes of the day. Delve further into the carnage that took place around the world, in which unscrupulous and money grabbing individuals from the Northumbrian coast in England to the Everglades in America, would callously slaughter whole colonies of birds (leaving their young to die) purely to provide the millinery trade with ornate feathers to decorate fashionable hats during that era.The book also takes the reader into the world of millinery sweatshops of poverty stricken New York and describes the conditions and deprivations under which the poorly paid workers, many of them immigrants, worked. You can even learn about the background, history and amazing life of one of the worlds greatest fashion designers, Coco Chanel, as she set out on her lifetime of fashion in Edwardian Paris.With superb fashion colour plates of the day, together with images of amazingly creative and colourful hat pins from both the UK and America, the author shares the fruits of his 40 years of postcard collecting and the highs and lows of his search for the 'Hats' postcards, as worn by his Edwardian 'girlfriends' from over 100 year ago.

Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian

Author : Ed Regis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197520332
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian written by Ed Regis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the fall of 1962, at the height of the Cold War, officers representing the three main military services, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, arrived at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington. The officers were from the Desert Test Center, a new military installation in Fort Douglas, Utah. The chapter describes how these officers outlined a biological survey of various Pacific islands that they wanted to be undertaken. They were not forthcoming with their motives in wanting the survey, but Smithsonian officials volunteered to perform the survey using their own scientists and others to be hired as needed"--