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Author : William Thomas Pritchard
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Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Polynesian Reminiscences written by William Thomas Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Thomas Pritchard
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Download or read book Polynesian Reminiscences; Or, Life in the South Pacific Islands written by William Thomas Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pritchard
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Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Polynesian Reminiscences; Or, Life in the South Pacific Islands written by Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Thomas Pritchard
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Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book Polynesian Reminiscences, Or, Life in the South Pacific Islands written by William Thomas Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. T. Pritchard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282227937
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Polynesian Reminiscences written by W. T. Pritchard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Polynesian Reminiscences: Or Life in the South Pacific Islands Having made several voyages to the South Seas when attached to Government expeditions, I have a tolerably fair knowledge of that portion of the globe, and I may perhaps be allowed to state that Mr. Pritchard's pages appear to me to be amongst the most trustworthy and valuable that have as yet issued from the London press, and that they ought to take rank with Ellis's 'polynesian Researches' and Mariner's 'tonga, ' the two classical works on Polynesia. 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 : Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573597
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Literary Culture and the Pacific written by Vanessa Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images of 'native' wonderment at European culture in fact betray the emergence of more complex modes of appropriation and interrogation by the Pacific peoples. Vanessa Smith argues that the Pacific islanders called into question the material basis and symbolic capacities of writing, even as they were first being framed in written representations. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, she suggests that complex modes of self-authorization informed the transmission of new cultural practices to the Pacific peoples. This shift of attention towards reception and appropriation provides the context for a detailed discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson's late Pacific writings.
Author : Jean Ingram Brookes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book International Rivalry in the Pacific Islands 1800-1875 written by Jean Ingram Brookes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr
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Total Pages : 754 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue ... 1807-1871 written by Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.W. Newbury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317028716
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands written by C.W. Newbury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the Mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbours before and after the advent of French administration. Davies's manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries and presented as a contribution to the literature of the Pacific. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.
Author : Julian P. Hume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472937457
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Extinct Birds written by Julian P. Hume and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.
Author : Geoffrey Irwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521476515
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (765 download)
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.
Author : Arturo J. Aldama
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253109880
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Violence and the Body written by Arturo J. Aldama and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-28 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State explores the relationship between subalternity, the discourse and technology of the body, and the rise and proliferation of racial, colonial, sexual, domestic, and state violence, examining the materiality of violence on the "otherized" body. Grounded in U.S./Mexico border and Latin American cultural studies, the essays in this collection intersect discussions of subalternity, violence, and discourses of the body in a transethnic, feminist, and global cultural studies context. They provide a global mapping of contemporary modes and acts of physical and representational violence and demonstrate how discourses of otherization are reinforced and interanimated through violence on what Elizabeth Grosz has called the "intensities" and "flows" of the body.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456631
Total Pages : 1425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Andrew Thornley
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820203402
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Exodus of the I Taukei written by Andrew Thornley and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2002 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 762 pages
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Author : Reform Club (London, England). Library
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Total Pages : 648 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Reform Club written by Reform Club (London, England). Library and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Publishers' circular and booksellers' record written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
