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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Polynesia
ISBN : UIUC:30112116674398
Author : Mel Kernahan
Publisher : Verso
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1859849784
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Author : Brian C. Bernards
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295806150
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 : Jonathan Lamb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226468495
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 : Steve Colgate,Doris Colgate
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780071778794
Learn how to handle a cruising sailboat in as little as seven days—even if you’ve never sailed before! Who says you have to be an experienced daysailor before you can think about cruising? Steve and Doris Colgate know that most of us don’t have that kind of time. At the Offshore Sailing School, the Colgates have helped more than 100,000 adults—three-quarters of whom started as beginning sailors or complete newcomers--take the helm of a midsize cruising sailboat. Now Fast Track to Cruising offers these proven instructional methods to all aspiring sailors with big dreams and little time. This is the very first guide that teaches sailing and cruising together, taking you from your first sail to independent cruising in one leap. You can make that leap in as little as seven days—as in the Colgates’ “Fast Track to Cruising” course—or you can get there at a more leisurely pace. Either way, no other book will take you from your first tacking or docking maneuver to a mastery of navigation and diesel engines as efficiently as this one. "America's most experienced sailing instructors present a thorough and easy to understand look at cruising. Leisure time is precious. Safety is paramount. The Colgates will help you maximize your time on the water."--Gary Jobson, ESPN's lead sailing analyst and editor at large for Cruising World and Sailing World “Doris and Steve Colgate understand that people want to reach their sailing goals as quickly as possible and they've built the excellent Fast Track program to accomplish it.”--Bernadette Bernon, former editorial director of Cruising World magazine "Together Steve and Doris Colgate have been teaching beginners to sail for over half a century. In Fast Track to Cruising they have included every concept and procedure you need to get yourself from a want-to-be sailor to one who is knowledgeable and competent to take the helm--with confidence and a smile."--Charles Mason, Executive Editor, SAIL magazine
Author : Richard Parkinson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0824822455
"Richard Parkinson's Dreissig Jahre in der Sudsee was first published in 1907. In this 900-page work, Parkinson drew together and expanded on the scientific and popular papers he had been publishing since 1887, creating in the process a landmark ethnography of the Bismarck Archipelago." "His travels covered the islands now known as New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Manus, and Buka and Bougainville, but he also collected information about the mainland of New Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelmsland). His observations covered a wide range, from religious life and ceremonies to artefacts and language. It is clear he talked extensively with people - though mostly with a translator - and compared accounts. He also took many photographs, some 200 of which were included in the volume. Given the period, all his human subjects had to be posed, but the range of associated detail, probably unconsciously included, is very wide."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Sydney Parkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1773
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000120730
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048891785
Author : Charles Warren Stoddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Gay men
ISBN : UCSC:32106009358216
Author : Bengt Danielsson
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013915704
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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Astrid Lindgren
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844669741
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780862416430
Tales from the South Seas comprises The Beach at Falesá, The Bottle Imp, The Wrecker, The Ebb Tide, The Isle of Voices, and Letters, and is introduced by Jenni Calder.
Author : Clement L (Clement Lindley) Wragge
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013575474
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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Douglas Newton
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015048584737
Drawing on the famous collections of the Musee Barbier-Mueller this unusual and beautifully illustrated book brings together these cultures to demonstrate the astonishing aesthetic similarities between civilizations located far apart in both space and time. While the arts of the Easter Islands and Maori civilizations have been well known for some years the creativity of the inhabitants of Borneo, Sulawei, and Sumatra is less familiar, and is scarcely represented in the major public collections. On the basis of the linguistic consonance between the thousand or more modern languages spoken in Oceania, anthropologists and archaeologists have begun to trace the cultural links throughout this area, in particular through the rituals and beliefs which are often the inspiration for the forms and functions of the artifacts. Masks in human or animal form, made of tortoiseshell, wood, dried leaves or clay; drums, shields, and batons; multicolored clothing for war and peace; intricate jewelry; as well as a wide variety of everyday containers and implements -- all the treasures in this collection display a sophistication of ornament and technical expertise which rival the products of ancient European civilizations. Scholarly essays by over thirty international experts focus on each island or civilization and form a fascinating study which will certainly become the standard work in this field, of interest to both students and the general reader.
Author : George Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Australasia
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1N14