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The Naturalist and His 'beautiful Islands'

Author : David Russell Lawrence
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1925022021
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Naturalist and His 'beautiful Islands' written by David Russell Lawrence and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons … Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one’s life’. Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singlehandedly. His career in the Pacific extended beyond the Solomon Islands. He worked briefly for the Western Pacific High Commission in Fiji, was a temporary consul in Samoa, and travelled as a Government Agent on a small labour vessel returning indentured workers to the Gilbert Islands. As an independent naturalist he made three successful expeditions to the islands, and even climbed Mt Popomanaseu, the highest mountain in Guadalcanal. However, his natural history collection of over 20,000 specimens, held by the British Museum of Natural History, has not been comprehensively examined. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in order to control the Pacific Labour Trade and to counter possible expansion by French and German colonialists. It remaining an impoverished, largely neglected protectorate in the Western Pacific whose economic importance was large-scale copra production, with its copra considered the second-worst in the world. This book is a study of Woodford, the man, and what drove his desire to establish a colonial protectorate in the Solomon Islands. In doing so, it also addresses ongoing issues: not so much why the independent state broke down, but how imperfectly it was put together in the first place.

The Solomon Islands and Their Natives

Author : H. B. Guppy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Solomon Islands and Their Natives written by H. B. Guppy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Solomon Islands and Their Natives" by H. B. Guppy is a study. In this volume, the author has chiefly confined himself to his observations on anthropology, natural history, botany, and meteorology. He also mentions his account of the geology and of the coral reefs. Excerpt: "The Solomon Islands cover an area 600 miles in length. They include seven or eight large mountainous islands attaining an extreme height, as in the case of Guadalcanar and Bougainville, of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet, and possessing a length varying from 70 to 100 miles, and a breadth varying between 20 and 30 miles. In addition, there are a great number of smaller islands that range in size from those 15 to 20 miles in length to the tiny coral island only half a mile across. The islands fall naturally into two divisions, those mainly or entirely of volcanic formations and those mainly or entirely of recent calcareous formations."

A Naturalist Among the Head-Hunters; Being an Account of Three Visits to the Solomon Islands in the Years 1886, 1887, And 1888

Author : Charles Morris Woodford
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230281735
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book A Naturalist Among the Head-Hunters; Being an Account of Three Visits to the Solomon Islands in the Years 1886, 1887, And 1888 written by Charles Morris Woodford and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... canoes is only what one might expect. Certainly a native that was pointed out to me on Ulawa as having come adrift from one of the islands of the Santa Cruz group showed considerably more of the Polynesian than of the Melanesian type. Coming to the New Hebrides, where the population is almost entirely Melanesian, canoes are conspicuous by their absence, such as are seen being the most wretched affairs, and totally unfitted for any extended voyage. II. UPON THE MIGRATIONS OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE. It may not be here out of place to offer a few remarks upon the migrations of the Polynesian race, which from Tonga and Samoa as a starting-point, as is almost universally admitted, has sent forth colonists that have peopled New Zealand, Tahiti, and the surrounding islands, the Marquesas, and the distant Sandwich Islands, as well as all the scattered groups of coral atols south of the equator, and between the Marquesas on the east and the Solomons on the west. How are we to account for their presence in the Pacific? It is undoubtedly to Asia, that cradle of the human race, and after that to the Malay Archipelago, that we must look for the beginnings not only of the Polynesian, but of the Melanesian race as well. A comparison of the vocabularies in Wallace's "Malay Archipelago" with those of the Melanesian and Polynesian inhabitants of the Pacific will show a close bond of relationship. The theory of Dumont d'Urville, that Polynesia formed part of a large continent formerly connected with Asia, which by some geological convulsion was buried beneath the waves, the tops of the mountains alone remaining above water and forming to-day the islands of the South Sea, cannot now be seriously entertained. The latest knowledge we possess on this point tends...

Naturalist Histories

Author : Jamon Alex Halvaksz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824888790
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Naturalist Histories written by Jamon Alex Halvaksz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These “discoveries” and exploratory moves have had profound local and global impacts. Often, however, local knowledge and communities are silent in the ethologies and histories that naturalists produce. This volume analyzes the ways that Indigenous and non-Indigenous naturalists have made island natures visible to a wider audience, their relationship with the communities where they work, as well as the unique natures that they explore and help make. In staking out an area of naturalist histories, each contributor addresses the relationship between naturalists and Oceanic communities, how these histories shaped past and present place and practices, the influence on conservations and development projects, and the relationship between scientific and indigenous knowledge. The essays span across colonial and postcolonial frames, tracing shifts in biological practice from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century focus on taxonomy and discovery to the twentieth-century disciplinary restructurings and new collecting strategies, and contemporary concerns with biodiversity loss, conservation, and knowledge formation. The production of scientific knowledge is typically seen in ethnographic accounts as oppositional, contrasting Indigenous and western, local and global, objective and subjective. Such dichotomous views reinforce differences and further exaggerate inequities in the production of knowledge. More dangerously, value distinctions become embedded in discussions of Indigenous identity, rights, and sovereignty. Contributors acknowledge that these dichotomous narratives have dominated the approach of the scientific community while informing how social scientists have understood the contributions of Pacific communities. The essays offer a nuanced gradient as historical narratives of scientific investigation, in dialogue with local histories, and reveal greater levels of participation in the creation of knowledge. The volume highlights how power infuses the scientific endeavor and offers a distinct and diverse view of knowledge production in Oceania. Combining senior and emerging international scholars, the collection will be of interest to researchers in the social sciences, history, as well as biology and allied fields.

Jack London and the Sea

Author : Anita Duneer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081732125X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Jack London and the Sea written by Anita Duneer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer Jack London’s fiction has been studied previously for its thematic connections to the ocean, but Jack London and the Sea marks the first time that his life as a writer has been considered extensively in relationship to his own sailing history and interests. In this new study, Anita Duneer claims a central place for London in the maritime literary tradition, arguing that for him romance and nostalgia for the Age of Sail work with and against the portrayal of a gritty social realism associated with American naturalism in urban or rural settings. The sea provides a dynamic setting for London’s navigation of romance, naturalism, and realism to interrogate key social and philosophical dilemmas of modernity: race, class, and gender. Furthermore, the maritime tradition spills over into texts that are not set at sea. Jack London and the Sea does not address all of London’s sea stories, but rather identifies key maritime motifs that influenced his creative process. Duneer’s critical methodology employs techniques of literary and cultural analysis, drawing on extensive archival research from a wealth of previously unpublished biographical materials and other sources. Duneer explores London’s immersion in the lore and literature of the sea, revealing the extent to which his writing is informed by travel narratives, sensational sea yarns, and the history of exploration, as well as firsthand experiences as a sailor in the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean. Organized thematically, chapters address topics that interested London: labor abuses on “Hell-ships” and copra plantations, predatory and survival cannibalism, strong seafaring women, and environmental issues and property rights from San Francisco oyster beds to pearl diving in the Paumotos. Through its examination of the intersections of race, class, and gender in London’s writing, Jack London and the Sea plumbs the often-troubled waters of his representations of the racial Other and positions of capitalist and colonial privilege. We can see the manifestation of these socioeconomic hierarchies in London’s depiction of imperialist exploitation of labor and the environment, inequities that continue to reverberate in our current age of global capitalism.

A Naturalist Among The Head-hunters

Author : Charles Morris Woodford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015804418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book A Naturalist Among The Head-hunters written by Charles Morris Woodford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Naturalist Goes Fishing

Author : James McClintock
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137279907
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book A Naturalist Goes Fishing written by James McClintock and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally recognized marine biologist Jim McClintock combines his deep expertise as a marine biologist with his personal passion for fishing in a beautifully written narrative

Sensing Disaster

Author : Matthew Lauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392078
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Sensing Disaster written by Matthew Lauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2007, a tsunami slammed a small island in the western Solomon Islands, wreaking havoc on its coastal communities and ecosystems. Drawing on over ten years of ethnographic and environmental science research, Matthew Lauer provides an intimate account of this catastrophic event that explores how a century of colonization, Christianity, and increasing entanglement with capitalism prefigured the local response and the tumultuous recovery process. Despite near total destruction of several villages, few people lost their lives, as nearly everyone fled to high ground before the tsunami struck. To understand their astonishing, lifesaving response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink the popular portrayals of indigenous ecological knowledge that inform environmental research and contemporary disaster mitigation strategies so as to avoid displacing those aspects of indigenous knowing and being that tend to be overlooked. In an increasingly disaster-prone era of ecological crises, this important study challenges readers to expand their thinking about the causes and consequences of calamities, the effects of disaster relief and recovery efforts, and the nature of local knowledge"--

Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific

Author : Rebecca Monson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108844804
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific written by Rebecca Monson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines how land disputes are entangled with gender, ethnicity and territoriality, shaping public authority and state formation.

Risky Shores

Author : George Behlmer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503605957
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Risky Shores written by George Behlmer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In sparkling, seamless prose, Risky Shores offers fresh insights into the cultural encounters between the British and the Melanesians.” —Dane Kennedy, author of Decolonization Why did the so-called “Cannibal Isles” of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries—from Captain James Cook’s death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945—this book considers the category of “the savage” in the context of British Empire in the Western Pacific, reassessing the conduct of Islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them. Sensationalized depictions of Melanesian “savages” as cannibals and headhunters created a unifying sense of Britishness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exotic people inhabited the edges of empire—and precisely because they did, Britons who never had and never would leave the home islands could imagine their nation’s imperial reach. George Behlmer argues that Britain’s early visitors to the Pacific—mainly cartographers and missionaries—wielded the notion of savagery to justify their own interests. But savage talk was not simply a way to objectify and marginalize native populations: it would later serve also to emphasize the fragility of indigenous cultures. Behlmer by turns considers cannibalism, headhunting, missionary activity, the labor trade, and Westerners’ preoccupation with the perceived “primitiveness” of indigenous cultures, arguing that British representations of savagery were not merely straightforward expressions of colonial power, but also belied home-grown fears of social disorder. “A wonderful book: beautifully researched, compellingly written, and vitally important to debates about race relations and agency in the Pacific world . . . The result is an intellectual feast.” —Jane Samson, author of Race and Redemption

Three Voyages of a Naturalist

Author : Michael John Nicoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Three Voyages of a Naturalist written by Michael John Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Naturalist On Desert Islands

Author : Percy Roycroft Lowe
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021625625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book A Naturalist On Desert Islands written by Percy Roycroft Lowe and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work of natural history, Percy Roycroft Lowe recounts his adventures exploring the flora and fauna of exotic desert islands around the world. From giant tortoises to rare birds, his vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations bring the wonders of these remote landscapes to life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

How Materials Matter

Author : Graeme Were
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202027
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book How Materials Matter written by Graeme Were and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.

The Canadian Sportsman and Naturalist

Author : William Couper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Sportsman and Naturalist written by William Couper and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Naturalist on Desert Islands

Author : Percy Roycroft Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Naturalist on Desert Islands written by Percy Roycroft Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Inland Island

Author : Josephine Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982177500
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Inland Island written by Josephine Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautiful book...about nature the way Walden was a book about nature. It should be read by everyone who still retains the capacity to feel anything” (The New York Times). Stunningly written and fiercely observed, a new edition of a classic work of nature writing about a year on an Ohio farm, by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Josephine Johnson. Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island is Josephine W. Johnson’s startling and brilliant chronicle of nature and the seasons at her rambling thirty-seven-acre farm in Ohio, which she and her husband reverted to wilderness with the help of a state forester. Over the course of twelve months, she observes the changing landscape with a naturalist’s precision and a poet’s evocative language. Readers will marvel at the way she brings to life flashes of beauty, the inexorable cycle of growth and decay, and the creatures who live alongside her, great and small. A forerunner of iconic American women nature writers and a champion of civil rights who marched in Washington against the Vietnam war, Johnson intersperses these “delicate marvels” (The New York Times) with profound reflections about racial inequality, urbanization, social justice, and environmental destruction that speak powerfully to our time. Ready to be rediscovered by a new generation, The Inland Island is a vital and relevant meditation on nature and time, capturing the wonder, beauty, hope—and flaws—of our turbulent world.

The Seasons of Cumberland Island

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820324975
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book The Seasons of Cumberland Island written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving through seasons punctuated by the comings and goings of such animals as the migratory birds that pass through in autumn and spring and the loggerhead turtles that nest in summer, more than one hundred photographs reveal the subtle but important effect of cyclical change on the ecosystems of Cumberland Island--the largest and most beloved of Georgia's barrier islands.