Passage From India To El Dorado

Author : Dave Hollett
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0838638198

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Passage from India to El Dorado by Dave Hollett Pdf

"At the instigation of William Gladstone, this challenge was met by implementing a controversial plan he had conceived, namely, the recruitment and importation of indentured workers from various places, but primarily from India, then the "jewel in the Crown" of the British Empire. This book is the story of these immigrants, who were transported from one side of the globe to another, almost exclusively in sailing ships."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Kandell
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 038071499X

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Passage Through El Dorado by Jonathan Kandell Pdf

Author : Frona Eunice Wait
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732639472

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Stories of El Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Stories of El Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait

Author : Margriet Fokken
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : East Indians
ISBN : 9789087047214

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Beyond Being Koelies and Kantráki by Margriet Fokken Pdf

This book traces the self-positioning of Hindostani people in the face of British and Dutch colonial practices. Originally from India and shipped to the Dutch colony of Suriname after the abolition of slavery, the Hindostani served as contract labourers to keep the plantation system afloat from 1873. Central to the book is the perspective of the Hindostani themselves. We travel alongside the Hindostani from the moment they were recruited and their movement through the depots awaiting shipment, their travel experiences, their arrival in Suriname, relocation to plantations, and their dispersal following the end of their contracts, either as city workers, or farmers. All along, the book poses the question of identification: how did Hindostani make sense of themselves, their fellow Hindostani, and Surinamese society? Stereotyped images make way for insight in lived experience of lower and higher caste, Hindus and Muslims, men and women.

Author : Various,Various Authors
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108053877

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The Nautical Magazine for 1835 by Various,Various Authors Pdf

The 1835 Nautical Magazine includes shipping news, a lurid 'journal of a privateer', and discussion of discipline on merchant ships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11036322

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Nautical Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : OXFORD:555014666

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The Nautical Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNVA001717603

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The Nautical Magazine a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs in General by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kirk Smock
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1841622230

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Guyana by Kirk Smock Pdf

South America's often overlooked English-speaking country lies far off the well-trodden tourist path. Guyana is the ideal destination for the discerning visitor seeking adventure. Within its vast interior, the Guiana Shield (one of the four pristine tropical rainforests left in the world) converges with the Amazon Basin, creating a unique geography composed of coastal waters, mangroves, marshes, savannas, mountains and tropical rainforests.Bordered by Venezuela, Brazil, Suriname and the Atlantic Ocean, the lively locals - a melting pot of East Indian and African descendants, peppered with Chinese, Europeans and Amerindians - create a culture decidedly more Caribbean than Latin.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Social problems
ISBN : OSU:32435063392666

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The Conservator by Anonim Pdf

Author : Diane Dufva Quantic
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0803288506

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The Nature of the Place by Diane Dufva Quantic Pdf

The Great Plains has long been fertile ground for literature. The Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories by such Plains writers as Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari Sandoz, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Manfred, Wallace Stegner, and Bess Streeter Aldrich. Throughout, Diane Dufva Quantic is aware of the region’s collective social and cultural history—aware of the immensely fruitful clash between that complex history and Plains myth (such as “Garden of the World” and “Great American Desert”). In the vast and changeable Great Plains, as Wright Morris once remarked, “Many things would come to pass, but the nature of the place would remain a matter of opinion.”

Author : Tobias Döring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134520916

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Caribbean-English Passages by Tobias Döring Pdf

Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative and cross-cultural perspective, in which familiar oppositions of colonial/white versus postcolonial/black writing are deconstructed. English identity is thereby questioned by this colonial contact, and Caribbean-English writing radically redraws the map of world literature. This book is essential reading for students of Postcolonial Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UVA:X006174371

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New West Indian guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Basdeo Mangru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173019088657

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The Elusive El Dorado by Basdeo Mangru Pdf

The Elusive El Dorado is a thoroughly researched collection of essays on the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean. This fascinating book focuses mainly on the indenture and post-indenture historical periods. It includes a list of emigrant ships, with dates of arrival that landed in Guyana from Calcutta and Madras. Indians interested in researching their roots will find this information invaluable. A valuable resource for genealogists.

Author : Peter O. Koch
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476684871

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Eldorado and the Quest for Fortune and Glory in South America by Peter O. Koch Pdf

This book traces the origin of the legend of El Dorado and the various expeditions that set out to locate that mysterious land of untold wealth in South America. Motivated by both fanciful rumors of a golden city ruled by a man who coated himself daily with gold dust, and the more practical allure of a region abundant in cinnamon trees (a spice that was worth its weight in gold to Europeans), many conquistadors convinced themselves that another native empire awaited their conquest. These quests for fortune and glory would lead to an encounter with fierce female warriors who were believed to be the Amazons of ancient Greek lore, and the discovery of the mighty river later named for the legendary Amazon tribe. The first half of this book details the lesser-known accounts of German interest in locating the wealth of a golden kingdom called Xerira and an elusive passage at Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo which supposedly led to the Pacific Ocean. The second section focuses on the various Spanish efforts to discover El Dorado, each of which was eventually doomed to despair, disappointment, and death.