White Headhunter

Author : Nigel Randell
Publisher : Constable
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472113320

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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 : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786080478

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The White Headhunter by Nigel Randell Pdf

The remarkable biography of a 19th century sailor, whose Pacific adventures led him to him living with a tribe of headhunters.

Author : Nigel Randell
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117989975

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The White Headhunter by Nigel Randell Pdf

The true story of Jack Renton, a young Scots sailor shanghaied in San Francisco in 1868. Escaping from his floating prison in an open whaleboat, he was washed up on the shores of Malatia in the Solomon Islands - where he embarked upon an eight-year voyage into the heart of darkness.

Author : Nigel Randell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 078671459X

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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 : Hector Holthouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 0207158975

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White Headhunter by Hector Holthouse Pdf

Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824865177

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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 : William Finlay,James E. Coverdill
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501721557

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Headhunters by William Finlay,James E. Coverdill Pdf

Headhunters are third-party agents paid a fee by companies for locating job candidates perform a unique sales role. The product they sell is people, matching candidates with jobs and companies with candidates. Headhunters affect the professional lives of thousands of employees every day, and their work has a profound, though hidden, effect on the employment picture in the United States. William Finlay and James E. Coverdill draw on interviews with and observations of headhunters and on analysis of headhunting training seminars, lectures, industry newsletters, and a mail survey of headhunting firms. The result is a frank and sometimes unsettling portrait of the aims, attitudes, and tactics of practitioners. The payment of fees has shifted from candidates to employers, and recruiters now find people to fit jobs rather than the other way around. Finlay and Coverdill address what they feel is a serious lack of research about the work headhunters do and how they do it. Their book is built around three major questions: What advantages do employers derive from using third-party agents to handle candidate search and recruitment? How are headhunters able to accomplish the double sale ('selling' candidates to employers and employers to candidates)? What criteria do headhunters use for selecting candidates? In the process, Finlay and Coverdill link their findings to larger issues of institutional and historical context, revealing the economic and political reasons clients use headhunters, demonstrating how headhunters manipulate clients and candidates, and assessing the impact of headhunters' actions on hiring decisions.

Author : Paul Peppis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107042643

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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 : Tamar Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062041784

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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 : R. Roque
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230251335

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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 : Lawrence Winkler
Publisher : Bellatrix
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780991694167

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Stories of the Southern Sea by Lawrence Winkler Pdf

It lives in the hole where the moon used to be. And for most of the worst part of the northern winter, over the last two decades, so have we. The real South Pacific was not a Bali Hai musical, but a drama of cannibals and castaways, headhunters and slavers, paradise and perdition. This is a book of saline psalms. This is water.

Author : Clive Moore
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760460983

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Making Mala by Clive Moore Pdf

Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an undeserved reputation for conservatism and aggression. Making Mala argues that in essence Malaitans are no different from other Solomon Islanders, and that their dominance, both in numbers and their place in the modern nation, can be explained through their recent history. A grounding theme of the book is its argument that, far than being conservative, Malaitan religions and cultures have always been adaptable and have proved remarkably flexible in accommodating change. This has been the secret of Malaitan success. Malaitans rocked the foundations of the British protectorate during the protonationalist Maasina Rule movement in the 1940s and the early 1950s, have heavily engaged in internal migration, particularly to urban areas, and were central to the ‘Tension Years’ between 1998 and 2003. Making Mala reassesses Malaita’s history, demolishes undeserved tropes and uses historical and cultural analyses to explain Malaitans’ place in the Solomon Islands nation today.

Author : Stephen Holley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : British
ISBN : UOM:39015062518629

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A White Headhunter in Borneo by Stephen Holley Pdf

Author : Simon Harrison
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454980

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Dark Trophies by Simon Harrison Pdf

Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of misconduct among military personnel over the past two centuries, exploring its close connections with colonialism, scientific collecting and concepts of race, and how it is a model for violent power relationships between groups.

Author : Tere Batham
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1574091824

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Cruising Japan to New Zealand by Tere Batham Pdf

Both American-born Batham and her British husband grew up aboard boats and are experienced and accomplished seafarers. After several years of sailing the South Pacific Islands, they settled temporarily in Japan in the mid- 1990s. Two-and-a-half years later, in 1997, they set sail again, on a 14-month, 10,000 mile journey back to their home in New Z