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The Shark God

Author : Rafe Martin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590395009

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Rafe Martin and David Shannon reunite in this folktale interpretation of a dramatic flood myth set amidst the unmatched beauty of the Hawaiian Islands. In a country whose ruler is cruel and whose people are hardened, two children remain warm-hearted and exuberant. One day after freeing a shark trapped in the shallows, the children are so excited that they touch the King's forbidden drum. They are thrown into prison, and no one will listen to their parents' pleas for mercy. So, at great risk, they go to the Shark God himself, and he takes retribution, causing a great flood that leaves only the good family behind, and clears the way for a better, kinder future.

The Shark God

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007202485

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Deep in the stacks of the Bodleian Library, a young man opens a small packet of sand, buried among crates of notes from the first missionaries to the South Pacific. That envelope and its dusty contents send Charles Montgomery on a quest to find its island source in the forgotten archipelago of Melanesia.

The Shark God

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226534863

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The author analyses and documents the people who had lived on the islands of Melanesia during the late nineteenth century, and chronicles the experiences of his great-grandfather, who was a missionary in the South Pacific.

The Last Heathen

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 192681231X

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In 1892, the Bishop of Tasmania set sail for Melanesia with the intent of rescuing islanders from lives of fear, black magic and cannibalism. Over 100 years later, his great grandson, Charles Montgomery, followed the bishop’s route through the South Pacific, seeking out the spirits and myths his missionary forebear had sought to destroy. Montgomery explored remote shores where gospel and empire never took hold. He rubbed shoulders with barefoot preachers, witch doctors and gun-toting rebels, only to discover that the pagan spirits were more tenacious than the missionaries had imagined. Melanesians had stirred Jesus and Mary into an already spicy broth of ancestor worship, ghosts, shark gods and magic. Through confrontations with a bizarre cast of characters—the randy ethnographer, the soft-talking assassin, the leper prophet—the journey becomes a debate on the nature of magic, myth and faith, and a metaphor for the transforming power of story. The Last Heathen marks the debut of an exciting young writer who charts his adventures with passion, insight and grace.

Sharks in the Time of Saviours

Author : Kawai Strong Washburn
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786896506

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'As vivid as it is splendid' New York Times 'Beautifully written and completely absorbing' Sarah Moss, Guardian A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in the NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OPRAH MAGAZINE and BBC CULTURE At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents. For the next thirty years Noa and his siblings struggle with life in the shadow of this miracle. Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliantly original and inventive novel, the sweeping story of a family living in poverty among the remnants of Hawai‘i’s mythic past and the wreckage of the American dream.

Shark God

Author : Randolph Lad
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798397064934

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An old legend about a Shark God is brought to life in a modern setting, The sharkmen from a family of Somoans have been keeping the legend of the shark god alive for generation. A boy takes that knowledge to get the shark god to take care of bullies.

Shark King

Author : R. Kikuo Johnson
Publisher : Beginning Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 1614793050

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In graphic novel format, retells the Hawaiian story of Nanaue, born of human mother and shark father, who struggles to find his place in a village of humans.

Surrounded By Sharks

Author : Michael Northrop
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545615471

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Surrounded By Sharks by Michael Northrop Pdf

A thrilling survival story from Michael Northrop, the acclaimed author of TRAPPED. He couldn't sleep. That's how it all started. When Davey wakes, just as the sun is rising, he can't wait to slip out of the crammed hotel room he's sharing with his family. Leave it to his parents and kid brother to waste an entire day of vacation sleeping in! Davey heads straight for the beach, book and glasses in hand, not bothering to leave a note. As the sparkling ocean entices him, he decides to test the water, never mind that "No Swimming" sign. But as the waves pull him farther from shore, Davey finds himself surrounded by water -- and something else, too. Something circling below the surface, watching, waiting. It's just a matter of time.

Shark Drunk

Author : Morten Stroksnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451493491

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A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. It’s a place of small villages, where the art of fishing, though evolving, is still practiced in traditional ways. Beneath the great depths surrounding these islands lurks the infamous Greenland shark. At twenty-four feet in length and weighing more than a ton, it is truly a beast to behold. But the shark is not known just for its size: Its meat contains a toxin that, when consumed, has been known to make people drunk and hallucinatory. Shark Drunk is the true story of two friends, the author and the eccentric artist Hugo Aasjord, as they embark on a wild pursuit of the famed creature—all from a tiny rubber boat. Together they tackle existential questions and encounter the world’s most powerful maelstrom as they attempt to understand the ocean from every possible angle, drawing on poetry, science, history, ecology, mythology, and their own—sometimes intoxicated—observations, meanwhile pursuing the elusive Greenland shark. By turns thrilling, wise, and hilarious, Shark Drunk is a celebration of adventure, marine life, and, above all, friendship. Winner of the Norwegian Brage Prize 2015 Winner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature 2015 Winner of the Norwegian Reine Ord Prize at Lofoten International Literature Festival 2016

All the Names They Used for God

Author : Anjali Sachdeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399593000

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"A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives, Anjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate: A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is irrevocably changed by the brutal power of the furnaces; a fisherman sets sail into overfished waters and finds a secret obsession from which he can't return; an online date ends with a frightening, inexplicable dissapearance. Her story "Pleiades" was called "a masterpiece" by Dave Eggers. Sachdeva has a talent for creating moving and poignant scenes, following her highly imaginative plots to their logical ends, and depicting how one small miracle can affect everyone in its wake"--

Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393076301

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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen Pdf

"Rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure....A treasure trove of exotic fact and hard thinking." —New York Times Book Review For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above—so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo and The Tangled Tree examines the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia, of brown bears in the mountains of Romania, and of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East. In the poignant and troublesome ferocity of these embattled creatures, we recognize something primeval deep within us, something in danger of vanishing forever.

The Shark God's Son

Author : Kai Bertrand
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448681162

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Can Gods Die? Kalei Makena has been dreaming of a man. When he steps out of her dreams and into her life, things get even stranger. He tells her that a god is trapped and about to die. He asks her to help him, but she already has her hands full with job, two brothers and a grandfather who is a powerful Hawaiian kahuna. She also has an ex-boyfriend who can't take a hint. There's something very different about the man she meets, and when someone she knows is killed, and her friends and family are threatened, she discovers how different he really is. He's a shark, literally. Hawaiian myth and magic weaves a tale of a woman, her family, and her fate.

Unsolved Mysteries of the Sea

Author : Lionel Fanthorpe,Patricia Fanthorpe
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781550024982

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Explores the intriguing mysteries of the sea: How were the seas formed? What gave rise to stories of mermaids, sirens, and sea monsters?

The Shark Club

Author : Ann Kidd Taylor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735221499

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“A quintessential summer read.” —Marie Claire A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances—in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is bitten by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve has thrown herself into her work as a world-traveling marine biologist discovering more about the minds of misunderstood sharks. But when Maeve returns home to the legendarily charming and eccentric Hotel of the Muses where she was raised by her grandmother, she finds more than just the blood orange sunsets and key lime pies she’s missed waiting for her. While Maeve has always been fearless in the water, on land she is indecisive. A chance meeting on the beach with a plucky, irresistible little girl who is just as fascinated by the ocean as Maeve was growing up leaves her at a crossroads: Should she re-kindle her romance with Daniel, the first love she left behind when she dove into her work? Or indulge in a new romance with her colleague, Nicholas, who turns up in her hometown to investigate an illegal shark-finning operation? Set against the intoxicating backdrop of palm trees, calypso bands, and perfect ocean views, The Shark Club is a story of the mysterious passions of one woman’s life: her first love and new love; the sea and sharks that inhabit it.

A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief

Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520303416

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Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire archipelago. This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain James Cook’s encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems.