Southern Seas

Author : Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612191188

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Southern Seas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban Pdf

Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year. In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell’s wife to find out what happened. Carvalho, a jaded former communist, must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master.

Author : James Hutton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368842284

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Missionary Life in the Southern Seas by James Hutton Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : OSU:32435015911126

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My First Voyage to Southern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston Pdf

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Polynesia
ISBN : UIUC:30112116674398

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In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

Author : Michael Myers Shoemaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Oceania
ISBN : CHI:25745035

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Islands of the Southern Seas by Michael Myers Shoemaker Pdf

Author : Michelle Kadarusman
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772780819

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Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman Pdf

From the time she was a little girl, Nia has dreamed up adventures about the Javanese mythical princess, Dewi Kadita. Now fourteen, Nia would love nothing more than to continue her education and become a writer. But high school costs too much. Her father sells banana fritters at the train station, but too much of his earnings go toward his drinking habit. Too often Nia is left alone to take over the food cart as well as care for her brother and their home in the Jakarta slums. But Nia is determined to find a way to earn her school fees. After she survives a minibus accident unharmed and the locals say she is blessed with 'good luck magic,' Nia exploits the notion for all its worth by charging double for her fried bananas. Selling superstitions can be dangerous, and when the tide turns it becomes clear that Nia’s future is being mapped without her consent. If Nia is to write a new story for herself, she must overcome more obstacles than she could ever have conceived of for her mythical princess, and summon courage she isn't sure she has.

Author : Mel Kernahan
Publisher : Verso
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1859849784

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White Savages in the South Seas by Mel Kernahan Pdf

"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004473263

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Sinophone Southeast Asia by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often marginalized voices we bring to the spotlight are quickly disappearing in the wake of standardization and homogenization, yet they tell a story that is uniquely Southeast Asian in its rich hybridity. Our comparative scope and focus on language, analysed in tandem with history and culture, adds a refreshing dimension to the broader field of Sino-Southeast Asian Studies.

Author : Brian C. Bernards
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295806150

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Writing the South Seas by Brian C. Bernards Pdf

Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.

Author : Marwyn Samuels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136575532

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Contest for the South China Sea by Marwyn Samuels Pdf

First published in 1982. Wide-ranging and fully documented, this book is the first detailed study of the origins, contexts and consequences of the long-standing dispute between China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines over the Paracel and Spratly Archipelagos in the South China Sea - one of the world's most strategically important inter-ocean basins and China's southern maritime frontier. Samuels' analysis: * Highlights the impact of the shifting balance of power in Asia and the growing competition for oceanic resources * Examines the implications of the dispute in terms of the historical and modern role of china as a maritime power in Asia.

Author : Jonathan Lamb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226468495

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Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840 by Jonathan Lamb Pdf

The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. Preserving the Self in the South Seas also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.

Author : Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : PRNC:32101007001074

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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century by Rufus Wilmot Griswold Pdf

Author : Jane M. Clayton and Charles A. Clayton
Publisher : Jane M Clayton
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Ship registers
ISBN : 9781526201362

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Shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775-1815 by Jane M. Clayton and Charles A. Clayton Pdf

A reference book providing a snapshot of the life histories of more than fifty shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery over a forty year period. It gives details of their places of business, the number of whaling ships they owned and biographical information about their commercial dealings and personal lives. A map of London showing the River Thames and the location of the businesses of the majority of these shipowners is enclosed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1970-05
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UCR:31210023618950

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Soviet Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hugh Robert Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UCAL:B4340747

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The Siege of the South Pole by Hugh Robert Mill Pdf