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Author : James D. Oliver
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ISBN 13 : 9781021791580
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Wreck of the Glide; With an Account of Life and Manners at the Fijii Islands written by James D. Oliver and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Oliver
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Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Wreck of the Glide written by James Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Oliver
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Total Pages : 122 pages
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Download or read book Wreck of the Glide written by James Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Oliver
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333354831
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Wreck of the Glide written by James Oliver and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wreck of the Glide: With an Account of Life and Manners at the Fijii Islands Of all mariners, the most deserving of sympathy is the young sailor, as he stands bewildered during a storm. He hears the orders sounding through the shrill trumpet, as if something must be done now or never, but has not yet learned their meaning. He is expected to act with the promptness and decision of the veteran mariner. Distracted and perplexed, yet eager to do his duty, he reels this way and that, seizes this and that rope, trem bles as he climbs the slippery shrouds, and, after doing his best, is hazed by his shipmates from whom he expect ed kindness, and by his officers, who, he hoped, would make allowance for his inexperience, and to whom he looked for protection and advice. In the neighborhood of the Equator, the crew were put on an allowance of five pints of water to a man. The supply was small for men toiling under the heat of a trop ical sun, and subsisting upon salt provisions. Nor was the water very agreeable. Fortunately, we had been but a few days in this situation, when, thick clouds aris ing, screened us from the brassy heavens, and poured their grateful contents upon the deck. N 0 orders from the officers were necessary to bestir the men, to secure the treasure, for every one was impatient to do his duty. The rain fell in torrents and continuously for several hours, during which time the crew were busily employed in conveying the water from the quarter-boats to the casks below. Thus timely relieved, our energies received new life, and a fresh impulse was given to things. 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 : William Endicott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wrecked Among Cannibals in the Fijis written by William Endicott and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Endicott was shipwrecked while on a trading voyage, and was rescued by the whaler Braganza. Includes a brief mention of whaling' -- Supplier's catalogue.
Author : James Oliver
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018043968
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Wreck of the Glide: With Recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis Island written by James Oliver 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.
Author : James Oliver
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282029128
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Wreck of the Glide written by James Oliver and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wreck of the Glide: With Recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis Island Or the manuscript from which this volume has been prepared for publication, that part which bears date pre viously to my departure from the Sandwich Islands, in the United States frigate Potomac, in the month of August, 1832, was written during my residence of about three months upon Oahu; the remainder, with some exceptions, was written about the time the incidents, herein mentioned, occurred. Thus the narrative is, for the most part, the production of my memory. 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 : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520938311
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Cannibal Talk written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings. Turning his keen intelligence to Polynesian societies in the early periods of European contact and colonization, Obeyesekere deconstructs Western eyewitness accounts, carefully examining their origins and treating them as a species of fiction writing and seamen's yarns. Cannibalism is less a social or cultural fact than a mythic representation of European writing that reflects much more the realities of European societies and their fascination with the practice of cannibalism, he argues. And while very limited forms of cannibalism might have occurred in Polynesian societies, they were largely in connection with human sacrifice and carried out by a select community in well-defined sacramental rituals. Cannibal Talk considers how the colonial intrusion produced a complex self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the fantasy of cannibalism became a reality as natives on occasion began to eat both Europeans and their own enemies in acts of "conspicuous anthropophagy."
Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740350
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles written by Nancy Shoemaker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect—others' approval, admiration, or deference.
Author : Ralph Thomas Kam
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628610
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty written by Ralph Thomas Kam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bones of Hawaii's King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location. In contrast, his successor Kamehameha III had a half-mile-long funeral procession to the Royal Tomb watched by thousands. Drawing on missionary journals, government publications and Hawaiian and English language newspapers, this book describes changes in funerary practices for Hawaiian royalty and details the observance of each royal death beginning with that of Kamehameha in 1819. Funeral observances of Western royalty provided an extravagant model for their Hawaiian counterparts yet many indigenous practices endured. Mourners no longer knocked out their teeth or tattooed their tongues but mass wailing, feather standards and funeral dirges continued well into the 20th century. Dozens of historic drawings and photographs provide rare glimpses of the obsequies of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties. Descriptions of the burial sites provide locations of the final resting places of Hawaii's royalty.
Author : James Oliver
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295322350
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Wreck of the Glide written by James Oliver and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Dane A. Morrison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142144237X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Eastward of Good Hope written by Dane A. Morrison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did news from the East—carried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and correspondence—shape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites? Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic History Freed from restrictions of British mercantilism in the years following the War of Independence, Yankee merchants embarked on numerous voyages of commerce and discovery into distant seas. Through the news from the East, carried in mariners' reports, ship logs, journals, and correspondence, Americans at home imagined the world as a map of dangerous and deranged places. This was a world that was profoundly disordered, hobbled by tyranny and oppression or steeped in chaos and anarchy, often deadly, always uncertain, unpredictable, and unstable, yet amenable to American influence. Focusing on four representative arenas—the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea (collectively, the East Indies, Oceana, and the American continent's Northwest coast)—Eastward of Good Hope recasts the relationship between America and the world by examining the early years of the republic, when its national character was particularly pliable and its foundational posture in the world was forming. Drawing on recent scholarship in global ethnohistory, Dane A. Morrison recounts how reports of cannibal encounters, shipboard massacres, shipwrecks, tropical fever, and other tragedies in distant seas led Americans to imagine each region as a distinct set of threats to their republic. He also demonstrates how the concept of justification through self-doubt allowed for aggressive expansionism and for the foundations of imperialism to develop. Morrison reconsiders American ideas about the world through three questions: How did British Americans imagine the world before independence allowed them to travel "Eastward of Good Hope"? What were the signal encounters that filled the public sphere in their early years of global encounter? And finally, how did Americans' contacts with other peoples inflect their ideas about the world and their place in it? Written in a lively, engaging style, Eastward of Good Hope will appeal to scholars and the general public alike.
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Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Historical Collections of the Essex Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book Essex Institute Historical Collections written by Essex Institute and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 826 pages
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Download or read book The Outing Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Outing and the Wheelman written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
