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Book Synopsis The White Headhunter by : Nigel Randell
Download or read book The White Headhunter written by Nigel Randell and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghaied in San Francisco in 1868, teenage Scots sailor Jack Renton then found himself on a voyage into the heart of darkness. Escaping from his floating prison in an open whaleboat, Renton drifted for 2000 miles, only to be washed up on the shores of a Pacific island shunned by 19th-century mariners, Malaita in the Solomon Islands. There he was stripped of his clothes by headhunters and forced to 'go native' to survive. Initially a slave to their chief, Kabou, he eventually became the man's most trusted warrior and adviser. Renton's own account of his eight-year exile, published after he was rescued, remains the only authenticated account of a mental and physical ordeal that still haunts the imagination to this day. It caused a sensation at the time, though it is now clear that it airbrushed out most of the key events. Researching the Renton legend, Nigel Randell spent several years talking to the Malaitans and piecing together a very different account from Renton's sanitised version. The ultimate irony is that a man so keen to conceal his 'crimes' should have bequeathed their evidence - a necklace of 60 human teeth - to a collector who donated it to a national museum.
Book Synopsis The White Headhunter by : Nigel Randell
Download or read book The White Headhunter written by Nigel Randell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, Jack Renton, a teenage Scots sailor, was shanghaied in San Francisco. In 1876, he was rescued from captivity on the Pacific island of Malaita, home to a fearsome tribe of headhunters. After the rescue, in a sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore at Malaita, was stripped of his clothes, possessions and his very identity, but lived to serve the island's tribal chief Kabou eventually as his most trusted adviser. For all the authenticity and riveting detail, however, it turns out that Renton's chronicle glossed over key events that made him the man that Kabou said he loved, "as my first-born son." Mining the oral history passed down in detail from generations of Malaitans, documentary filmmaker Nigel Randell spent seven years piecing together a more complete and grislier account of Renton's experience—as a man forced to assimilate in order to survive. While The White Headhunter is the story of a man transformed by an island, it is also the story of a man who transformed the island as he prepared it for the onslaught of Western civilization.
Book Synopsis The White Headhunter by : Collene Zadra
Download or read book The White Headhunter written by Collene Zadra and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Renton (1848-1878), also known as The White Headhunter, was a Scottish seaman from Orkney. Renton was rescued by a Royal Navy schooner called the Bobtailed Nag in 1875, being traded for "a dozen tomahawks, several yards of calico, some pipes, [and] tobacco", as well as several other items, along with a promise to return with more supplies. After the rescue, in a sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore at Malaita, was stripped of his clothes, possessions, and his very identity, but lived to serve the island's tribal chief Kabou eventually as his most trusted adviser. For all the authenticity and riveting detail, however, it turns out that Renton's chronicle glossed over key events that made him the man that Kabou said he loved, "as my first-born son."
Book Synopsis Headhunter Jack Renton by : Renda Oshinsky
Download or read book Headhunter Jack Renton written by Renda Oshinsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Renton (1848-1878), also known as The White Headhunter, was a Scottish seaman from Orkney. Renton was rescued by a Royal Navy schooner called the Bobtailed Nag in 1875, being traded for "a dozen tomahawks, several yards of calico, some pipes, [and] tobacco", as well as several other items, along with a promise to return with more supplies. After the rescue, in a sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore at Malaita, was stripped of his clothes, possessions, and his very identity, but lived to serve the island's tribal chief Kabou eventually as his most trusted adviser. For all the authenticity and riveting detail, however, it turns out that Renton's chronicle glossed over key events that made him the man that Kabou said he loved, "as my first-born son."
Book Synopsis The Headhunter's Edge by : Jeffrey E. Christian
Download or read book The Headhunter's Edge written by Jeffrey E. Christian and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s top headhunters reveals his most valuable techniques for getting the best jobs and finding the right people. The most important thing you’ll ever do if you are trying to build, rebuild, or even turn around an organization is hire the best people—and keep them. Jeffrey E. Christian has learned this lesson by working on hundreds of executive search assignments and building his own headhunting firm into a nationally recognized company, one of the top ten in the nation. In The Headhunter’s Edge, he reveals his secrets for excelling on either side of the desk—as a leader trying to build a great company, or as a job seeker in search of the next big position. In this practical manifesto, Christian shows how essential it is to have the most talented people on your side. But how do you find the best? And how do you become the best? Christian’s solution: Think like a headhunter. He gives readers the benefits of his twenty years of experience interviewing thousands of CEOs and potential CEOs, and tells you • how to conduct an interview and spot great leadership qualities in job candidates • exactly what to do and say to keep a valuable employee from resigning • how to expand your network to find the best emerging talent • key strategies and instructions for choosing and getting the most out of a search firm • what it takes for ambitious and talented people to get noticed and get the next big job or promotion Practical, impassioned, and wise, The Headhunter’s Edge is an indispensable guide to advancing your career—and making your business more successful and profitable.
Book Synopsis A White Headhunter in Borneo by : Stephen Holley
Download or read book A White Headhunter in Borneo written by Stephen Holley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Among the Head-hunters of Formosa by : Janet B. Montgomery McGovern
Download or read book Among the Head-hunters of Formosa written by Janet B. Montgomery McGovern and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Headhunting In The Solomon Islands: Around The Coral Sea by : Caroline Mytinger
Download or read book Headhunting In The Solomon Islands: Around The Coral Sea written by Caroline Mytinger and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 80 years ago, Caroline Mytinger, a portrait artist, and her childhood friend Margaret Warner set out by freighter from San Francisco with little more than $400 in their pocket and a tin of paints to their name. Their objective was to paint portraits of the tribal people of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands before the encroachment of modern, European-style culture changed their lives forever. This gripping book tells of the two women’s experiences whilst travelling through Melanesia between 1926 and 1930.
Book Synopsis The Headhunter's Daughter by : Tamar Myers
Download or read book The Headhunter's Daughter written by Tamar Myers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamar Myers returns to Africa in The Headhunter’s Daughter, the second book in her wonderful mystery series set in the Belgian Congo in the mid-twentieth century—a riveting and atmospheric follow-up to The Witchdoctor’s Wife. Raised in the Congo herself, the child of missionaries, Myers uses her intimate knowledge of the people, the culture, and the landscape to add richness to this stunning story of an abandoned infant raised by a tribe of headhunters—a masterful mystery that fans of Alexander McCall Smith and The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency will adore.
Book Synopsis Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters by : Philip Eade
Download or read book Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters written by Philip Eade and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'. 'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't yet met Sylvia and the Brookes' The Times Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo until 1946. The White Rajahs were long held up as model rulers, but the spectacularly eccentric behaviour of Ranee Sylvia - self-styled Queen of the Headhunters - changed everything. This is the compelling story of her part in their downfall.
Download or read book CSI: Headhunter written by Greg Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A package with no return address is delivered to the University of Nevada's anthropology department, and a genuine shrunken head is inside. At first, Gil Grissom and his team consider it a grisly relic, but soon evidence points out that it is, in fact, a modern-day murder. Original.
Book Synopsis There's No Elevator to the Top by : Umesh Ramakrishnan
Download or read book There's No Elevator to the Top written by Umesh Ramakrishnan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Would you like to have a series of lunch dates with the world's top CEOs? A chance to pick the brains of the people who run Aetna, Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, Charles Schwab, Starbucks, Dell, Fidelity, NCR, and dozens of other companies? You probably can't get that kind of access to leading C-suite executives, but Umesh Ramakrishnan can - and he shares what they told him in this unique book."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The White Pacific written by Gerald Horne and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.
Download or read book Head Hunter written by Eric Howling and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As captain of the Westside Warriors, Colt plays clean and hard. But lately his coach has been losing his temper and ordering the team to win at any cost, even if it means playing dirty. What makes it worse is that Coach is Colt's father, and his erratic behaviour at home and on the field has Colt wondering if something is seriously wrong with his dad. Colt follows Coach's orders to go head hunting and take out an opponent with a helmet-to-helmet hit, but Coach then claims that Colt acted on his own. When it turns out that Colt's dad has symptoms from concussions he suffered in his NFL career, Colt is made acting coach for the championship game. But will he let a teammate continue playing after a hit to the head, even when the teammate's own dad is urging him to play through the pain? This book explores the dangers of concussion in contact sports and the lasting damage they can cause in the context of an action-filled football story.
Download or read book Headhunter written by Mel Odom and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Slater and his team have been hired to retrieve a corpse from a high-security funeral home. The body contains something of great significance to their client--and the two top-flight security forces pursuing them--but whatever it is, it's also protected by hard-wired wizardry. With the enemy closing in, and his shadowrunning team forced into a corner, Jack is hoping he has one more trick up his sleeve.
Book Synopsis Among the Headhunters by : Robert Lyman
Download or read book Among the Headhunters written by Robert Lyman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying the notorious 'hump route' between India and China in 1943, a twin- engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, a Soviet double-agent posing as an OSS operative, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people aboard the aircraft survived—but they fell from the frying pan into the fire. They landed in wild countryside dominated by the Nagas, notorious headhunters who routinely practiced slavery and human sacrifice. Japanese soldiers lay close by, too, with their own brand of hatred for Americans. Among the Headhunters is the first account of this incredible story.
Book Synopsis The Lost Tribe of Coney Island by : Claire Prentice
Download or read book The Lost Tribe of Coney Island written by Claire Prentice and published by New Harvest. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.
