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Pacific Passages

Author : Patrick Moser
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824863836
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Passages written by Patrick Moser and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years after Hawaiians first paddled long wooden boards into the ocean, modern surfers have continued this practice, which has recently been transformed into a global industry. Pacific Passages brings together four centuries of writing about surfing, the most comprehensive collection of Polynesian and Western perspectives on the history and culture of a sport currently enjoyed by millions of people around the world. The stories begin with Hawaiian legends and chants and are followed by the journals of explorers; the travel narratives of missionaries and luminaries such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Jack London; and the contemporary observations of Tom Wolfe, William Finnegan, Susan Orlean, and Bob Shacochis. Readers follow the historical transformation of surfing’s image through the centuries: from Polynesian myths of love to Western accounts of horror and exoticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to modern representations of surfing as a character-building activity in pre-World-War II California and the quintessential expression of disaffected youth. They explore the sport’s most recent trends by writers and cultural critics, whose insights into technology, competition, gender, heritage, and globalism reveal how surfing impacts some of today’s most pressing social concerns. Aided by informative introductions, the writings in Pacific Passages provide insight into the values and ideals of Polynesian and Western cultures, revealing how each has altered and been altered by surfing—and how the sport itself has shown an amazing ability throughout the centuries to survive, adapt, and prosper.

Pacific Passages

Author : Patrick Moser
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824831551
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Passages written by Patrick Moser and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years after Hawaiians first paddled long wooden boards into the ocean, modern surfers have continued this practice, which has recently been transformed into a global industry. Pacific Passages brings together four centuries of writing about surfing, the most comprehensive collection of Polynesian and Western perspectives on the history and culture of a sport currently enjoyed by millions of people around the world. The stories begin with Hawaiian legends and chants and are followed by the journals of explorers; the travel narratives of missionaries and luminaries such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Jack London; and the contemporary observations of Tom Wolfe, William Finnegan, Susan Orlean, and Bob Shacochis. Readers follow the historical transformation of surfing’s image through the centuries: from Polynesian myths of love to Western accounts of horror and exoticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to modern representations of surfing as a character-building activity in pre-World-War II California and the quintessential expression of disaffected youth. They explore the sport’s most recent trends by writers and cultural critics, whose insights into technology, competition, gender, heritage, and globalism reveal how surfing impacts some of today’s most pressing social concerns. Aided by informative introductions, the writings in Pacific Passages provide insight into the values and ideals of Polynesian and Western cultures, revealing how each has altered and been altered by surfing—and how the sport itself has shown an amazing ability throughout the centuries to survive, adapt, and prosper.

Pacific Passages

Author : Hans-Christof Wächter
Publisher : Haus Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Passages written by Hans-Christof Wächter and published by Haus Pub.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Travel writer Hans-Christof Wachter sails to Vanuatu, Ovalau, Fiji, Rarotonga and the Cook islands looking to find the rhythms of the lives of the islands and their inhabitants and discovers that the South Sea islands were never the paradise the first European travellers imagined them to be."--BOOK JACKET.

Pacific Passage

Author : Thomas J. Watson
Publisher : Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780913372685
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Passage written by Thomas J. Watson and published by Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Thomas J. Watson, Jr. retired as chief executive officer of IBM in 1971, he began to pursue sailing, flying and exploring adventures he had dreamed about during his successful decades in business. One of the sailing and exploring adventures was a Panamato-Fiji passage through the South Pacific, and in this book he writes a charming, candid, erudite account of that sojourn in a part of the world we all dream about. A book for sailors and travelers, Pacific Passage takes us to Cocos Island, the Galapagos, Easter Island, Pitcairn, the Gambiers and Mangareva, the Tuamotus, Tahiti and Moorea, the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. And 72 color illustrations bring the lush, exotic South Seas to this book's oversize pages with great impact.

A History of the Pacific Islands

Author : Deryck Scarr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136837965
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Pacific Islands written by Deryck Scarr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.

Northwest Passages

Author : Bruce Barcott
Publisher : Seattle : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Northwest Passages written by Bruce Barcott and published by Seattle : Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 200 years, Northwest Passages brings together thoughts on the region and its people from such notable writers and personalities as George Vancouver, Chief Seattle, Rudyard Kipling, Raymond Carver, Mary McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Sallie Tisdale. Northwesterners, surmises editor Bruce Barcott, are loners and individualists. The lives and writings of these people are inextricably tied to the land and its natural forces. Through historical and contemporary fiction, essays, poetry, and journals, Northwest Passages reveals the underlying spirit that shapes the Northwest identity, and the beauty of both its inner and outer landscapes.

Ocean Passages

Author : Erin Suzuki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781439920930
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Passages written by Erin Suzuki and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing and contrasting the diverse experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander subjectivities across a shared sea

Racing Through Paradise

Author : William F. Buckley,
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493087886
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Racing Through Paradise written by William F. Buckley, and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in Bill Buckley’s now classic sailing trilogy. Here the irresponsible, eloquent, enjoyable Buckley guides us through his beloved Azores, and through the Galapagos (“the Bronx Zoo at the Equator”), about which he inclines more to Melville’s view than to Darwin’s, and through places such as Johnston Atoll, where mysteries and hostilities await. On a hilarious side adventure, we have a memorable encounter with “The Angel of Craig’s Point.” Along the way, Buckley navigates among pleasant diversions as well as unforeseen navigational and philosophical shoals. He adroitly excerpts the candid journals of his shipmates, notably that of his son, Christopher, himself a best-selling novelist. The fine photographs by Christopher Little illustrate throughout. When Buckley’s Sealestial sails, finally, into New Guinea, we have shared a unique experience with a special breed of sailor, skipper, host, friend, and human being.

The Pacific Crossing Guide 3rd edition

Author : Kitty van Hagen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472935365
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Crossing Guide 3rd edition written by Kitty van Hagen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Crossing Guide is a complete reference for anyone contemplating sailing the Pacific in their own boat. From ideal timing, suitable boats, routes, methods of communication, health and provisioning to seasonal weather, departure and arrival ports, facilities, likely costs and dangers, the comprehensiveness of this new edition will both inspire dreamers and instil confidence in those about to depart. This new edition has been completely restructured with Part 1 covering thorough preparation for a Pacific crossing and Part 2 covering Pacific weather patterns, major routes and landfall ports, with useful website links throughout. There are completely new sections on rallies, coral atolls and atoll navigation, the cyclone season and laying up, use of electronic charts, satellite phones versus HF radio, ongoing maintenance, and Pacific festivals. Completely updated, expanded and refreshed for the new generation of Pacific cruisers, this is the definitive reference, relied upon by many thousands of cruisers.

Passage to Juneau

Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307797260
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Passage to Juneau written by Jonathan Raban and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss. "A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers—between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class.

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy)

Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393083179
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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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.

Ocean Passages for the World

Author :
Publisher : U.K. Hydrographic Office
ISBN 13 : 9780707718873
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Passages for the World written by and published by U.K. Hydrographic Office. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Snow Mountain Passage

Author : James D. Houston
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030742782X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Snow Mountain Passage written by James D. Houston and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve. The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children—in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed—proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father—traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover—a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms. We follow Reed during the next five months as he travels around northern California, trying desperately to find means and men to rescue his family. And through the amazingly imagined "Trail Notes" of Patty Reed, who recollects late in life her experiences as a child, we also follow the main group, progressively stranded and starving on the Nevada side of the Sierras. Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens—who dies, who survives, and why—is brilliantly, grippingly told.

The Last Great Sea

Author : Terry Glavin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550549546
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Sea written by Terry Glavin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of numerous books of natural history, including "Dead Reckoning, " this is a voyage through the human and natural history of the North Pacific Ocean.

Ocean Passages for the World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780707741956
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Passages for the World written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inside Passage

Author : Richard Manning
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597268813
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Inside Passage written by Richard Manning and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is about an idea that rests at the junction of what we call wilderness and civilization. Simply, it is a call for rethinking, and more importantly, reconstructing, our relationship with nature.” --from Inside PassageProtecting land in parks, safe from human encroachment, has been a primary strategy of conservationists for the past century and a half. Yet drawing lines around an area and calling it wilderness does little to solve larger environmental problems. As author Richard Manning puts it in a knowingly provocative way: “Wilderness designation is not a victory, but acknowledgement of defeat.”In Inside Passage, Manning takes us on a thought-provoking tour of the lands along the Pacific Northwest's Inside Passage -- from southeast Alaska down through Puget Sound, and then on to the northern Oregon coast and the Columbia River system -- as he explores the dichotomy between “wilderness” and “civilization” and the often disastrous effects of industrialization.Through vivid description and conversations with people in the region, Manning brings new insights to the area's most pressing environmental concerns -- the salmon crisis, deforestation, hydroelectric dams, urban sprawl -- and examines various innovative ways they are being addressed. He details efforts to restore degraded ecosystems and to integrate economic development with environmental protection, and looks at powerful new tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) that are increasingly being used to further conservation efforts.Throughout, Manning focuses on the hopeful possibility that we can redesign the human enterprise to a scale more appropriate to the nature that holds it, that rather than drawing borders around nature, we might instead start placing borders on human behavior. Perhaps, he suggests, we can begin to behave in all places as if all places matter to us as much as wilderness, and, in the process, claim all of nature as our own.Inside Passage is a wide-ranging and thoughtful exploration by a gifted writer, and an important work for anyone interested in the Pacific Northwest, or concerned about the future of our relationship to the natural world.

Ocean Passages and Landfalls

Author : Rod Heikell
Publisher : Gardners Books
ISBN 13 : 9780852888377
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Passages and Landfalls written by Rod Heikell and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a handbook for world cruisers, this provides invaluable passage-planning information for crossing the oceans, with discussions on climates, seasons, oceanography and the merits of different world cruising routes. Fully illustrated with over 300 charts and plans in full color.