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Book Synopsis The Cannibal Islands by : R. M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Cannibal Islands' is a historical novel by prolific author R.M. Ballantyne. In it, he gives some background to the world-wide explorations of the famous Captain Cook. Ballantyne uses detailed descriptions of the customs and habits of those who Captain Cook encountered to flesh out the adventures of the famous explorer. Ballantyne is particularly fascinated by the habit of cannibalism practised by some of the people that Cook encountered. Very much of it's time, this is nevertheless a fascinating and insightful read.
Download or read book Cannibal Island written by Nicolas Werth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terror During the spring of 1933, Stalin’s police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime’s “cleansing” of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of them were dumped in a remote wasteland and left to fend for themselves. Cannibal Island reveals the shocking, grisly truth about their fate. These people were abandoned on the island of Nazino without food or shelter. Left there to starve and to die, they eventually began to eat each other. Nicolas Werth, a French historian of the Soviet era, reconstructs their gruesome final days using rare archival material from deep inside the Stalinist vaults. Werth skillfully weaves this episode into a broader story about the Soviet frenzy in the 1930s to purge society of all those deemed to be unfit. For Stalin, these undesirables included criminals, opponents of forced collectivization, vagabonds, gypsies, even entire groups in Soviet society such as the “kulaks” and their families. Werth sets his story within the broader social and political context of the period, giving us for the first time a full picture of how Stalin’s system of “special villages” worked, how hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens were moved about the country in wholesale mass transportations, and how this savage bureaucratic machinery functioned on the local, regional, and state levels. Cannibal Island challenges us to confront unpleasant facts not only about Stalin’s punitive social controls and his failed Soviet utopia but about every generation’s capacity for brutality—including our own.
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Book Synopsis The Cannibal Islands by : R.M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands written by R.M. Ballantyne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cannibal Islands" is a journey novel written by R.M. Ballantyne, a Scottish creator. The story revolves around the protagonist, Ralph Rover, a young sailor who finds himself shipwrecked on a far flung island inside the South Pacific, inhabited via cannibals. The narrative unfolds as Ralph, alongside together with his partners, faces the challenges of survival in a hostile surroundings even as additionally grappling with the constant chance of the islanders who exercise cannibalism. Ballantyne's work explores themes of resilience, friendship, and cultural conflict as the characters navigate the perils of their surroundings. The novel gives a brilliant portrayal of the extraordinary landscapes and customs of the Pacific Islands during the 19th century. With a blend of adventure, suspense, and cultural exploration, "The Cannibal Islands" displays the colonial attitudes and perceptions every day during the Victorian technology. Ballantyne, recognised for his adventure stories, creates a gripping narrative that captures the imagination of readers even as providing insights into the technology's social and cultural dynamics.
Download or read book American Sentinel written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands by : Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw
Download or read book From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands written by Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Log of the Water Lily (Thames Gig) During Two Cruises in the Summers of 1851 - 1852, on the Rhine, Neckar, Main, Moselle, Danube and Other Streams of Germany by : Robert Blachford Mansfield
Download or read book The Log of the Water Lily (Thames Gig) During Two Cruises in the Summers of 1851 - 1852, on the Rhine, Neckar, Main, Moselle, Danube and Other Streams of Germany written by Robert Blachford Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas by : R. M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas" by R. M. Ballantyne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Stewart's Handbook of the Pacific Islands by : Percy Stafford Allen
Download or read book Stewart's Handbook of the Pacific Islands written by Percy Stafford Allen and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hawaiian by Birth written by Joy Schulz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had birthed more than 250 white children, considered Hawaiian subjects by the indigenous monarchy and U.S. citizens by missionary parents. In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy. These children of white missionaries would eventually alienate themselves from the Hawaiian monarchy and indigenous population by securing disproportionate economic and political power. Their childhoods--complicated by both Hawaiian and American influences--led to significant political and international ramifications once the children reached adulthood. Almost none chose to follow their parents into the missionary profession, and many rejected the Christian faith. Almost all supported the annexation of Hawai'i despite their parents' hope that the islands would remain independent. Whether the missionary children moved to the U.S. mainland, stayed in the islands, or traveled the world, they took with them a sense of racial privilege and cultural superiority. Schulz adds children's voices to the historical record with this first comprehensive study of the white children born in the Hawaiian Islands between 1820 and 1850 and their path toward political revolution.
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Download or read book Stewart's Hand Book of the Pacific Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Captain and "the Cannibal" by : James Fairhead
Download or read book The Captain and "the Cannibal" written by James Fairhead and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange odyssey the two men shared in ensuing years. The account is uniquely told, as much from the captive’s perspective as from the American’s. Upon returning to New York, Morrell exhibited Dako as a “cannibal” in wildly popular shows performed on Broadway and along the east coast. The proceeds helped fund a return voyage to the South Pacific—the captain hoping to establish trade with Dako’s assistance, and Dako seizing his only chance to return home to his unmapped island. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrell’s ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dako’s life, and the two men's infusion into American literature—Dako inspired Melville’s Queequeg, for example. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive.
Book Synopsis Miscellany: The Cannibal Islands by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book Miscellany: The Cannibal Islands written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
