The White Headhunter

Author : Nigel Randell
Publisher : Constable
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472113320

Get Book

The White Headhunter by Nigel Randell Pdf

Shanghaied in San Francisco in 1868, teenage Scots sailor Jack Renton then found himself on a voyage into the heart of darkness. Escaping from his floating prison in an open whaleboat, Renton drifted for 2000 miles, only to be washed up on the shores of a Pacific island shunned by 19th-century mariners, Malaita in the Solomon Islands. There he was stripped of his clothes by headhunters and forced to 'go native' to survive. Initially a slave to their chief, Kabou, he eventually became the man's most trusted warrior and adviser. Renton's own account of his eight-year exile, published after he was rescued, remains the only authenticated account of a mental and physical ordeal that still haunts the imagination to this day. It caused a sensation at the time, though it is now clear that it airbrushed out most of the key events. Researching the Renton legend, Nigel Randell spent several years talking to the Malaitans and piecing together a very different account from Renton's sanitised version. The ultimate irony is that a man so keen to conceal his 'crimes' should have bequeathed their evidence - a necklace of 60 human teeth - to a collector who donated it to a national museum.

Author : Nigel Randell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 078671459X

Get Book

The White Headhunter by Nigel Randell Pdf

In 1868, Jack Renton, a teenage Scots sailor, was shanghaied in San Francisco. In 1876, he was rescued from captivity on the Pacific island of Malaita, home to a fearsome tribe of headhunters. After the rescue, in a sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore at Malaita, was stripped of his clothes, possessions and his very identity, but lived to serve the island's tribal chief Kabou eventually as his most trusted adviser. For all the authenticity and riveting detail, however, it turns out that Renton's chronicle glossed over key events that made him the man that Kabou said he loved, "as my first-born son." Mining the oral history passed down in detail from generations of Malaitans, documentary filmmaker Nigel Randell spent seven years piecing together a more complete and grislier account of Renton's experience—as a man forced to assimilate in order to survive. While The White Headhunter is the story of a man transformed by an island, it is also the story of a man who transformed the island as he prepared it for the onslaught of Western civilization.

Author : Stephen Holley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : British
ISBN : UOM:39015062518629

Get Book

A White Headhunter in Borneo by Stephen Holley Pdf

Author : Hector Holthouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 0207158975

Get Book

White Headhunter by Hector Holthouse Pdf

Author : Tamar Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062041784

Get Book

The Headhunter's Daughter by Tamar Myers Pdf

Tamar Myers returns to Africa in The Headhunter’s Daughter, the second book in her wonderful mystery series set in the Belgian Congo in the mid-twentieth century—a riveting and atmospheric follow-up to The Witchdoctor’s Wife. Raised in the Congo herself, the child of missionaries, Myers uses her intimate knowledge of the people, the culture, and the landscape to add richness to this stunning story of an abandoned infant raised by a tribe of headhunters—a masterful mystery that fans of Alexander McCall Smith and The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency will adore.

Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824865177

Get Book

The White Pacific by Gerald Horne Pdf

Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.

Author : Jo Nesbo
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307948694

Get Book

Headhunters by Jo Nesbo Pdf

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cockroaches comes a funny, dark, and twisted caper worthy of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers—about an aspiring art thief and the target who’s about to destroy his life. “If you don’t know Nesbø, it’s time to get with it.” —USA Today Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War II—and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown. Don't miss Jo Nesbo's new thriller, Killing Moon, coming soon!

Author : Janet B Montgomery McGovern
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016608802

Get Book

Among the Head-hunters of Formosa by Janet B Montgomery McGovern Pdf

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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Greg Cox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416545002

Get Book

CSI: Headhunter by Greg Cox Pdf

A package with no return address is delivered to the University of Nevada's anthropology department, and a genuine shrunken head is inside. At first, Gil Grissom and his team consider it a grisly relic, but soon evidence points out that it is, in fact, a modern-day murder. Original.

Author : Paul Peppis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107042643

Get Book

Sciences of Modernism by Paul Peppis Pdf

Sciences of Modernism charts the numerous collaborations and competitions occurring between early modernist literature and early twentieth-century science.

Author : Philip Eade
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474609654

Get Book

Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters by Philip Eade Pdf

The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'. 'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't yet met Sylvia and the Brookes' The Times Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo until 1946. The White Rajahs were long held up as model rulers, but the spectacularly eccentric behaviour of Ranee Sylvia - self-styled Queen of the Headhunters - changed everything. This is the compelling story of her part in their downfall.

Author : Umesh Ramakrishnan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591842255

Get Book

There's No Elevator to the Top by Umesh Ramakrishnan Pdf

"Would you like to have a series of lunch dates with the world's top CEOs? A chance to pick the brains of the people who run Aetna, Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, Charles Schwab, Starbucks, Dell, Fidelity, NCR, and dozens of other companies? You probably can't get that kind of access to leading C-suite executives, but Umesh Ramakrishnan can - and he shares what they told him in this unique book."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : R. Roque
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230251335

Get Book

Headhunting and Colonialism by R. Roque Pdf

An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance.

Author : Rhys Richards,Graham Officer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Headhunters
ISBN : 0473226790

Get Book

Head Hunters Black and White by Rhys Richards,Graham Officer Pdf

Describes the collecting practices and collections of three collectors in late nineteenth to early twentieth century Solomon Islands. Collectors Arthur Mahaffy, Graham Officer and Arthur Hocart demonstrated different approaches to both collecting and the local people that they interacted with.

Author : John King
Publisher : Random House
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448112586

Get Book

Headhunters by John King Pdf

Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise a system based on the sexual act. In this lager-soaked league, the most that women can offer a man is 4 points - unless, that is, she leaves her handbag unattended... From its base in the asset-stripped, emotionally castrated 90s, Headhunters shows the dreams of The Sex Division members breaking through the heavy media cloud of anorexic pin-ups and paedophile fashion. A missing brother, prophetic visions, a love affair, and tit-for-tat confrontation draw the characters out into the open - revealing the men behind the machismo, their need for mutual respect, and their recognition of the hidden or suppressed affinities.