Bountiful Island

Author : David Damas
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889208438

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Bountiful Island by David Damas Pdf

In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including such food plants as coconuts, breadfruit and taro. In this detailed examination of land-tenure practices in the atoll, David Damas argues that the resulting high level of subsistence has brought an expansion of the population which has put great pressures on land. Under these pressures, land tenure has moved from communal usage to lineage control, to individual ownership and transmission rights. Comparative material from neighbouring Mwaekil atoll indicates the same general succession from larger to smaller units of tenure with increasing population. While control of land by kin groups is usual in the Pacific, other atoll societies show examples of individual tenure which also relate to changes in population densities. Subsequent depopulation and emigration have not altered the fundamentals of the land-tenure system but have led to the emergence of a pattern of land stewardship. This has resulted in imbalances between the holdings of resident cultivators and those of absentee landowners. Comparative material from neighbouring Mwaekil atoll indicates the same general succession from larger to smaller units of tenure with increasing population. While control of land by kin groups is usual in the Pacific, other atoll societies show examples of individual tenure which also relate to changes in population densities. Bountiful Island will be of interest to all anthropologists studying cross-cultural comparisons in the theory of land-tenure practices and the ethnology, social anthropology and ethnohistory of Micronesia. This book is also suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural ecology and area courses on the Pacific.

Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081886106

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Publications ... by United States. Hydrographic Office Pdf

Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000114226693

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Sailing Directions for Australia by United States. Hydrographic Office Pdf

Author : Dorian Moro,Derek Ball,Sally Bryant
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486306626

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Australian Island Arks by Dorian Moro,Derek Ball,Sally Bryant Pdf

Australia is the custodian of a diverse range of continental and oceanic islands. From Heard and Macquarie in the sub-Antarctic, to temperate Lord Howe and Norfolk, to the tropical Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’s islands contain some of the nation’s most iconic fauna, flora and ecosystems. They are a refuge for over 35% of Australia’s threatened species and for many others declining on mainland Australia. They also have significant cultural value, especially for Indigenous communities, and economic value as centres for tourism. Australian Island Arks presents a compelling case for restoring and managing islands to conserve our natural heritage. With contributions from island practitioners, researchers and policy-makers, it reviews current island management practices and discusses the need and options for future conservation work. Chapters focus on the management of invasive species, threatened species recovery, conservation planning, Indigenous cultural values and partnerships, tourism enterprises, visitor management, and policy and legislature. Case studies show how island restoration and conservation approaches are working in Australia and what the emerging themes are for the future. Australian Island Arks will help island communities, managers, visitors and decision-makers to understand the current status of Australia’s islands, their management challenges, and the opportunities that exist to make best use of these iconic landscapes.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351814409

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Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume II by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ’Memoir’ he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia’s flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and ’remarks’ on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings, and Flinders’s surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The ’Memoir’ explains Flinders’ methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys.

Author : Johannes Riquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192568540

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The Aesthetics of Island Space by Johannes Riquet Pdf

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations of both canonical and less well-known works. The Aesthetics of Island Space discusses islands as central figures in the modern experience of space. It examines the spatial poetics of islands in literary texts, from Shakespeare's The Tempest to Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, in the journals of explorers and scientists such as James Cook and Charles Darwin, and in Hollywood cinema. It traces the ways in which literary and cinematic islands have functioned as malleable spatial figures that offer vivid perceptual experiences as well as a geopoetic oscillation between the material energies of words and images and the energies of the physical world. The chapters focus on America's island gateways (Roanoke and Ellis Island), visions of tropical islands (Tahiti and imagined South Sea islands), the islands of the US-Canadian border region in the Pacific Northwest, and the imaginative appeal of mutable islands. It argues that modern voyages of discovery posed considerable perceptual and cognitive challenges to the experience of space, and that these challenges were negotiated in complex and contradictory ways via poetic engagement with islands. Discussions of island narratives in postcolonial theory have broadened understanding of how islands have been imagined as geometrical abstractions, bounded spaces easily subjected to the colonial gaze. There is, however, a second story of islands in the Western imagination which runs parallel to this colonial story. In this alternative account, the modern experience of islands in the age of discovery went hand in hand with a disintegration of received models of understanding global space. Drawing on and rethinking (post-)phenomenological, geocritical, and geopoetic theories, The Aesthetics of Island Space argues that the modern experience of islands as mobile and shifting territories implied a dispersal, fragmentation, and diversification of spatial experience, and it explores how this disruption is registered and negotiated by both non-fictional and fictional responses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aids to navigation
ISBN : UOM:39015081893946

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Sailing Directions (enroute). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UCAL:B5480856

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Australia Directory by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UOM:39015073415757

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The Australia Directory: The East Coast, Torres Strait, and Coral Sea by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department Pdf

Author : Henry Stuart Russell
Publisher : Sydney : Turner & Henderson
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Darling Downs (Qld.)
ISBN : UCAL:B3821110

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The Genesis of Queensland by Henry Stuart Russell Pdf

Contacts with natives noted; p.22; Moreton Bay natives used to locate runaways; p.24; Nasal septum pierced, two joints of little finger left hand removed; manufacture of nets and baskets; fishing; shelters; duels described; p.31; Bathurst Island; tattoos, painted, scarification, physical appearance; clothing; weapons; p.34; Grave in detail; p.253; Sunstroke cure; p.295; Cannibalism; p.313; Gathering of tribes for Bunnia [bunya] season; p.339; Childrens games with bows and arrows.

Author : John Lort Stokes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783845711706

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Discoveries in Australia by John Lort Stokes Pdf

Bei diesem Buch, welches erstmals 1846 erschien, handelt es sich um die Darstellung der Reise der HMS Beagle nach Australien in den Jahren 1837 bis 1843. Sie umfasst die Fahrt von Plymouth nach Port Essington entlang der Nordküste Australiens. Es handelt sich hierbei um den zweiten Band der englischsprachigen Ausgabe.

Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108018197

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A Voyage to Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders Pdf

Volume 2 provides an account of Flinders' captivity in Mauritius, as well as a detailed appendix on botanical discoveries.

Author : John William Norie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:1481000897847

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A Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation and Nautical Astronomy by John William Norie Pdf

Author : John William Norie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026654435

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A Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation ... Thirteenth, Stereotype, Edition, Etc by John William Norie Pdf

Author : John Lort Stokes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Australia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100861699

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Discoveries in Australia by John Lort Stokes Pdf