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Mystery Islands

Author : Tom Koppel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789820108882
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Islands written by Tom Koppel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than 20,000 islands in the Pacific; fewer than half of them are inhabited. Some are too small or too barren to sustain human life, others are subject to the vagaries of the tides or without fresh water. But many uninhabited Pacific islands have supported life, and been home to Pacific island cultures and societies only to disappear seemingly in an instant--the so-called Mystery Islands. Tom Koppel's personal odyssey across a vast ocean and through time explores new theories and discoveries surrounding life throughout the Pacific. From celestial navigation and the sweep of the ocean currents, the hardships of survival and settlement, to the rich tapestry of Pacific Island customs and traditions, Mystery Islands shows how new archaeological findings have changed our entire of when and how the Pacific islands were first discovered and settled, beginning over 3,000 years ago.

The Ancient and Modern History of the Balearick Islands; Or of the Kingdom of Majorca:

Author : Juan Bautista Dameto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ancient and Modern History of the Balearick Islands; Or of the Kingdom of Majorca: by : Juan Bautista Dameto

Download or read book The Ancient and Modern History of the Balearick Islands; Or of the Kingdom of Majorca: written by Juan Bautista Dameto and published by . This book was released on 1719 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islands of Salt

Author : Konrad A. Antczak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088908163
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Islands of Salt written by Konrad A. Antczak and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity offers a unique entryway into the hitherto unknown maritime mobilities and daily lives of the seafarers who camped at the saltpans of Venezuelan islands from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, cultivating and harvesting the white crystal of the sea.For the first time, this study offers a comprehensive documentary history of the saltpans of La Tortuga Island and Cayo Sal in the Los Roques Archipelago, uncovering the surprising importance of their salt. Long-term archaeological excavations at the campsites by these saltpans have brought to light the plethora of material remains left behind by seafarers during their seasonal and temporary salt forays. The exhaustive analysis of the thousands of recovered things - pipes, punch bowls, plates, teapots, buttons, bones - contrasted with documentary evidence, not only enables us to understand where these things came from but also by whom they were used. By engaging the evidence through my theoretical framework of assemblages of practice, I demonstrate how seafarers and things were vibrantly entangled in the everyday assemblages of practice of salt cultivation, dining and drinking.This multisited approach spanning 256 years, reveals that seafarers were fervent buyers of fashionable products, drinking hot tea from porcelain tea bowls, using colorful ceramic chamber pots for their hygienic needs and imbibing exotic rum punch by the scorching saltpans of the uninhabited Venezuelan islands. Intended for scholars, students and the interested public alike, this historical archaeological study positions humble seafarers in the limelight, not as the anonymous movers of international trade and facilitators of imperial interests, but as avid trans-imperial and extra-imperial consumers of the fruits of those very empires.

Friendly Islands

Author : Noel Rutherford
Publisher : Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Friendly Islands written by Noel Rutherford and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly, and Their Importance to the Trade of Great-Britain

Author : William Borlase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly, and Their Importance to the Trade of Great-Britain by : William Borlase

Download or read book Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly, and Their Importance to the Trade of Great-Britain written by William Borlase and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes

Author : Brian S. Bauer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292708904
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes by : Brian S. Bauer

Download or read book Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes written by Brian S. Bauer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon, and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made ritual journeys to the sacred shrines there. In this book, Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish explore the extent to which this use of the islands as a pilgrimage center during Inca times was founded on and developed from earlier religious traditions of the Lake Titicaca region. Drawing on a systematic archaeological survey and test excavations in the islands, as well as data from historical texts and ethnography, the authors document a succession of complex polities in the islands from 2000 BC to the time of European contact in the 1530s AD. They uncover significant evidence of pre-Inca ritual use of the islands, which raises the compelling possibility that the religious significance of the islands is of great antiquity. The authors also use these data to address broader anthropological questions on the role of pilgrimage centers in the development of pre-modern states.

“The” History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands

Author : Juan de Abreu de Galindo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis “The” History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands by : Juan de Abreu de Galindo

Download or read book “The” History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands written by Juan de Abreu de Galindo and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient History from the Monuments. Persia from the Earliest Period to the Arab Conquest

Author : William Sandys Wright Vaux
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385487188
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient History from the Monuments. Persia from the Earliest Period to the Arab Conquest by : William Sandys Wright Vaux

Download or read book Ancient History from the Monuments. Persia from the Earliest Period to the Arab Conquest written by William Sandys Wright Vaux and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island at the End of the World

Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861894163
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Island at the End of the World written by Steven Roger Fischer and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically decreased around 1500, the Easter Islanders were forced to adapt in order to survive their isolation. Adaptation, Fischer asserts, was a continuous thread in the life of Easter Island: the first European visitors, who viewed the awe-inspiring monolithic busts in 1722, set off hundreds of years of violent warfare, trade, and disease—from the smallpox, wars, and Great Death that decimated the island to the late nineteenth-century Catholic missionaries who tried to "save" it to a despotic Frenchman who declared sole claim of the island and was soon killed by the remaining 111 islanders. The rituals, leaders, and religions of the Easter Islanders evolved with all of these events, and Fischer is just as attentive to the island's cultural developments as he is to its foreign invasions. Bringing his history into the modern era, Fischer examines the colonization and annexation of Easter Island by Chile, including the Rapanui people's push for civil rights in 1964 and 1965, by which they gained full citizenship and freedom of movement on the island. As travel to and interest in the island rapidly expand, Island at the End of the World is an essential history of this mysterious site.

The Island that Disappeared

Author : Tom Feiling
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612194109
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Island that Disappeared written by Tom Feiling and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans of the Mayflower--but what about the story of its sister ship, the Seaflower. Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. They were convinced that England’s empire would rise not in barren New England, but rather in tropical Central America. However, Providence became a colony in constant crisis: crops failed, slaves revolted . . . and then there were the pirates. And, as Tom Feiling discovers in this surprising history, the same drama was played out by the men and women who re-settled the island one hundred years later. The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism--even today. At first glance it is an island of devout churchgoers - but look a little closer, and you see that it is still dependent on its smugglers. At once intimate and global, this story of puritans and pirates goes to the heart of the contradictory nature of the Caribbean and how the Western World took shape.

A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands

Author : Arthur Edmondston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands written by Arthur Edmondston and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Observations on the ancient and present state of the islands of Scilly, and their importance to the trade of Great-Britain. In a letter

Author : William Borlase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Observations on the ancient and present state of the islands of Scilly, and their importance to the trade of Great-Britain. In a letter by : William Borlase

Download or read book Observations on the ancient and present state of the islands of Scilly, and their importance to the trade of Great-Britain. In a letter written by William Borlase and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islands in History and Representation

Author : Rod Edmond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000100804
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Islands in History and Representation written by Rod Edmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination. The collection addresses the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, the exploration of the Pacific, the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation, and island-oriented developments in postcolonial writing. Islands were often seen as natural colonies or settings for ideal communities but they were also used as dumping grounds for the unwanted, a practice which has continued into the twentieth century. The collection argues the need for an island-based theory within postcolonial studies and suggests how this might be constructed. Covering a historical span from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributors include literary and postcolonial critics, historians and geographers.

The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, Translated from a Spanish Manuscript, Lately Found in the Island of Palma : with an Enquiry Into the Origin of the Ancient Inhabitants. To which is Added, a Description of the Canary Islands, Including the Modern History of the Inhabitants, and an Account of Their Manners, Customs, Trade,&c. : in Two Volumes

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Author : Juan de Abreu de Galindo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, Translated from a Spanish Manuscript, Lately Found in the Island of Palma : with an Enquiry Into the Origin of the Ancient Inhabitants. To which is Added, a Description of the Canary Islands, Including the Modern History of the Inhabitants, and an Account of Their Manners, Customs, Trade,&c. : in Two Volumes written by Juan de Abreu de Galindo and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dana Island: The Greatest Shipyard of the Ancient Mediterranean

Author : Hakan Öniz
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789699525
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Dana Island: The Greatest Shipyard of the Ancient Mediterranean written by Hakan Öniz and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the archaeological discoveries from Dana Island, off the coast of Rough Cilicia in southern Turkey, where underwater investigations and surface survey undertaken in advance of excavation revealed nearly 300 ancient rock-cut slipways, the largest number of such naval installations discovered to date.

A Survey of the Ancient and Present State of the Scilly Islands: ...

Author : John Troutbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book A Survey of the Ancient and Present State of the Scilly Islands: ... written by John Troutbeck and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancient Murrelet

Author : Anthony J. Gaston
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408136716
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Murrelet written by Anthony J. Gaston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breeding along the northern Pacific coast from British Columbia to Japan, this little known bird dwelt in relative obscurity until it became the focus of a conservation debate which has resulted in a new National Park in the Queen Charlotte Islands, where half the world's population breeds. It made the headlines again when a lost, lone bird suddenly appeared at Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, England, in May 1990 and again in April 1991. The Ancient Murrelet and its three congeners are unique amongst seabirds in that their young are entirely precocial, leaving the nest as soon as they hatch to grow up at sea. Tony Gaston has carried out the only detailed study of the bird, in the fine mature coastal forests of the Queen Charlotte Islands. His work has revealed their complex social behaviour, the song behaviour of the males and the species' response to the variety of predators which they face - from Peregrines to Deer Mice. His story is set against a survey of the species worldwide and the grandeur of the northwest Pacific coast. The illustrations of Ian Jones, who also assisted with the research, capture the bird and its environment beautifully.