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Author : Frederick Joseph Moss
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Total Pages : 390 pages
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Download or read book Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea written by Frederick Joseph Moss and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick J. Moss
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266252764
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Through Atolls written by Frederick J. Moss and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Through Atolls: And Islands in Great South Sea Formation of coral reefs - Atolls or lagoon islands The Milli atoll - Coral gardens - The lagoon islanders - Food and dress - The water difficulty -the old navigators - Jaluit, the German metro polis-the embryo city - A small paradise - Jaluit lagoon - Lagoon island products - The work of the polyp - Pearls and pearl oysterssienfs. 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 : Frederick J. Moss
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330087732
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Through Atolls written by Frederick J. Moss and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Through Atolls: And Islands in Great South Sea The "Great South Sea" has been a region of romance from the day when De Balboa in the year of grace, 1513, so named the new ocean which burst upon his view as he gazed to the south from the hills above Panama. The exploits of buccaneers, the work of explorers and missionaries, the strange customs and the grace kindliness and ferocity of the islanders, have been the theme of many a well-known writer. The old order is changing and the more sober era of commerce rapidly rising in its place. Having had opportunities of observing both epochs, I wish to portray, as simply and faithfully as I can, the men and the customs of each. 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 : Harry Stephen Ladd
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Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae Through Adeorbidae) from the Western Pacific Islands written by Harry Stephen Ladd and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description and preliminary paleoecologic interpretations of fossil mollusks from seven island groups.
Author : Frederick Joseph Moss
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230219110
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea written by Frederick Joseph Moss and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 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. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter viii. A visit to ponape, it3 guins, and its people. The products of Ponape--On the road to China and Japan--Pagans and Christians--Ravages of small-pox--At Kusaio by the way--At Pingelap and Mokal--Pet pigs--Pet frigate hirds--Spanish man-of-war--Mr. Kuharri-s work--Start for the ruins--A trader's hospitality--The islets on the reef--Massive and mysterious ruins--Who were the builders?--Native migrations--A pleasure trip from Atafu--Islanders born rovers--Islets of Ponape apparently coral--A rough passage--Native customs--Heathen and Christian at Kite--Mr. Begg of Ponape--. His career and opinions--Captain Edward Eodd, a Pacific celebrity--His early experiences and present opinions--Good-bye to the veterans--Recent massacre of Spanish governor and forty-five soldiers at Ponape. Poxape stands prominent among the very fevr mountainous islands which vary the monotony of innumerable atolls in the Outer Pacific. The massive ruins of Ponape are its most remarkable feature, speaking in their weird loneliness of some dead and forgotten race. By whom and for what purpose they were built are questions to which no answer has yet been given. A careful inspection of the country, and comparison with similar ruins if such there be in other countries, will give the only prospect of solving the mystery. The present inhabitants of Ponape can tell nothing about the ruins and attribute them to the devil, a solution perfectly satisfactory to their minds. They are incapable of conceiving the construction of such works, and the people who built them must have been of a race much more numerous and greatly in advance of the two or three thousand natives now occupying this large island. Of these natives, the accompanying photog
Author : Frederick Joseph Moss
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Total Pages : 317 pages
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Download or read book Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea written by Frederick Joseph Moss and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick J. Moss
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363555024
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)
Download or read book THROUGH ATOLLS & ISLANDS IN TH written by Frederick J. Moss and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 378 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Author : Greg Dvorak
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824855213
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Coral and Concrete written by Greg Dvorak and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak’s cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth. Approaching the multiple “atollscapes” of Kwajalein’s past and present as Marshallese ancestral land, Japanese colonial outpost, Pacific War battlefield, American weapons-testing base, and an enduring home for many, Dvorak delves into personal narratives and collective mythologies from contradictory vantage points. He navigates the tensions between “little stories” of ordinary human actors and “big stories” of global politics—drawing upon the “little” metaphor of the coral organisms that colonize and build atolls, and the “big” metaphor of the all-encompassing concrete that buries and co-opts the past. Building upon the growing body of literature about militarism and decolonization in Oceania, this book advocates a layered, nuanced approach that emphasizes the multiplicity and contradictions of Pacific Islands histories as an antidote to American hegemony and globalization within and beyond the region. It also brings Japanese, Korean, Okinawan, and American perspectives into conversation with Micronesians’ recollections of colonialism and war. This transnational history—built upon a combination of reflective personal narrative, ethnography, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies—thus resituates Kwajalein Atoll as a pivotal site where Islanders have not only thrived for thousands of years, but also mediated between East and West, shaping crucial world events. Based on multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, as well as Dvorak’s own experiences growing up between Kwajalein, the United States, and Japan, Coral and Concrete integrates narrative and imagery with semiotic analysis of photographs, maps, films, and music, traversing colonial tropical fantasies, tales of victory and defeat, missile testing, fisheries, war-bereavement rituals, and landowner resistance movements, from the twentieth century through the present day. Representing history as a perennial struggle between coral and concrete, the book offers an Oceanian paradigm for decolonization, resistance, solidarity, and optimism that should appeal to all readers far beyond the Marshall Islands.
Author : Walter M. Goldberg
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000902870
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Global Atlas of Atolls written by Walter M. Goldberg and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the world’s tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons and reefs teeming with colorful marine life have captured the public imagination. They have also been the homeland of millions of people for millennia as various groups of migrants spread across the far reaches if the Pacific, Indian and Western Atlantic regions. Developed from recently available satellite data, A Global Atlas of Atolls presents high-quality details of 476 atolls across the globe, characterizing aspects of the atoll rim, the lagoon, and their coral reef communities in unprecedented detail. In synthesizing and enhancing understanding of these unique seascapes, this volume provides a distinct compendium of descriptions and images, as well as documentation of the environmental conditions of winds, waves, and tides and a summary of the background literature for each atoll area. There is no comparable work. After an introduction that includes a glossary of terms, each atoll is documented in the form of an atlas written for scientists, but accessible to any diver or reader interested in these spectacular reef-island habitats. This book also describes some current challenges and perspectives on their future. It will be useful as a reference work for marine scientists, while providing a minimum of technical jargon for those who are not scientists, but who enjoy reading about exotic places with unusual attributes.
Author : Frederick J. Moss
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Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea, by Frederick J. Moss,... written by Frederick J. Moss and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph H. Genz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824873416
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Breaking the Shell written by Joseph H. Genz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the atoll of Rongelap in the northern seas of the Marshall Islands, apprentice navigators once learned to find their way across the ocean by remotely sensing how islands transform the patterning of swell and currents. Renowned for their instructional stick charts that model and map the interplay of islands and waves, these students of wave piloting techniques embarked on trial voyages to ruprup jo̧kur, a Marshallese expression roughly translated as “breaking the shell” of the turtle, which would confer their status as navigators. These traditional practices, already in decline with imposing colonial occupations, came to an abrupt halt with the Cold War–era nuclear weapons testing program conducted by the United States. The residents and their descendants are still trying to recover from the myriad environmental, biological, social, and psychological impacts of the nuclear tests. Breaking the Shell presents the journey of Captain Korent Joel, who, having been forced into exile from the near-apocalyptic thermonuclear Bravo test of 1954, has reconnected to his ancestral maritime heritage and forged an unprecedented path toward becoming a navigator. Paralleling the Hawaiian renaissance that centered on Nainoa Thompson learning from Satawalese navigator Mau Piailug, the beginnings of the Marshallese voyaging revitalization—a collaborative, community-based project spanning the fields of anthropology, history, and oceanography—involved blending scientific knowledge systems, resolving ambivalence in nearly forgotten navigational techniques, and deftly negotiating cultural protocols of knowledge use and transmission. Through Captain Korent’s own voyaging trial, he and a group of surviving mariners from Rongelap are, against one of the darkest hours in human history, “breaking the shell” of their prime identity as nuclear refugees to begin recovering their most intimate of connections to the sea. Ultimately these efforts would inaugurate the return of the traditional outrigger voyaging canoe for the greater Marshallese nation, an achievement that may work toward easing ethnic tensions abroad and ensure cultural survival in their battle against the looming climate change–induced rising ocean. Drawing attention to cultural rediscovery, revitalization, and resilience in Oceania, the Marshallese are once again celebrating their existence as a people born to the rhythms of the sea.
Author : Leonard Peter Schultz
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Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands: Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae written by Leonard Peter Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : David Hopley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 904812638X
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs written by David Hopley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals. Their study therefore incorporates a wide range of disciplines. This encyclopedia approaches coral reefs from an earth science perspective, concentrating especially on modern reefs. Currently coral reefs are under high stress, most prominently from climate change with changes to water temperature, sea level and ocean acidification particularly damaging. Modern reefs have evolved through the massive environmental changes of the Quaternary with long periods of exposure during glacially lowered sea level periods and short periods of interglacial growth. The entries in this encyclopedia condense the large amount of work carried out since Charles Darwin first attempted to understand reef evolution. Leading authorities from many countries have contributed to the entries covering areas of geology, geography and ecology, providing comprehensive access to the most up-to-date research on the structure, form and processes operating on Quaternary coral reefs.
Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0792257197
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (922 download)
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Total Pages : 568 pages
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