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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 273817826X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 273817826X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Watriama and Co

Author: Hugh Laracy
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921666331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
WATRIAMA AND CO (the title echoes Kipling's STALKY AND CO!) is a collection of biographical essays about people associated with the Pacific Islands. It covers a period of almost a century and a half. However, the individual stories of first-hand experience converge to some extent in various ways so as to present a broadly coherent picture of 'Pacific History'. In this, politics, economics and religion overlap. So, too, do indigenous cultures and concerns; together with the activities and interests of the Europeans who ventured into the Pacific and who had a profound, widespread and enduring impact there from the nineteenth century, and who also prompted reactions from the Island peoples. Not least significant in this process is the fact that the Europeans generated a 'paper trail' through which their stories and those of the Islanders (who also contributed to their written record) can be known. Thus, not only are the subjects of the essays to be encountered personally, and within a contextual kinship, but the way in which the past has shaped the future is clearly discernible. Watriama himself features in various historical narratives. So, too, certain of his confreres in this collection, which is the product of several decades of exploring the Pacific past in archives, by sea, and on foot through most of Oceania.

Le Jacquard

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wool
Languages : en
Pages : 1160

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The Diet of Mothers and Children on the Island of Guam

Author: Sheila Malcolm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Around Paris with Kids

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Publisher: Fodor's
ISBN: 1400011507
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
For this smart, cheerful little book, Fodor's parent-experts have hand-picked 68 terrific things to do around Paris with a child in tow, from Luxembourg Gardens to The Waxworks Museum. Written by parents who live in Paris, this book is smart about what kids like and about what parents need.

Mick

Author: Suzanne Falkiner
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742586601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 916

Book Description
Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission - won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after publishing seven remarkable novels and several collections of poetry, Stow's literary output slowed. This biography examines the productive period as well as his long periods of publishing silence. In Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow, Suzanne Falkiner unravels the reasons behind Randolph Stow's quiet retreat from Australia and the wider literary world. Meticulously researched, insightful and at times deeply moving, Falkiner's biography pieces together an intriguing story from Stow's personal letters, diaries, and interviews with the people who knew him best. And many of her tales - from Stow's beginnings in idyllic rural Australia, to his critical turning point in Papua New Guinea, and his final years in Essex, England - provide us with keys to unlock the meaning of Stow's rich and introspective works. *** "The overriding virtue of this book is Falkiner's steady trust in the intelligence of her readers. She spells very little out, presenting us instead with this carefully curated wealth of textual evidence." -- Kerryn Goldsworthy, Australian Book Review *** Finally we have some sense of the wounds that shaped and animated Stow's poetry and fiction." -- Geordie Williamson, The Australian *** "Suzanne Falkiner's prodigious biography of Randolph Stow is a book long awaited by many; not just the literati of his native Australia but those countless readers who feasted on his novels and wondered what kind of person could write with such imaginative power. Not only do we come to appreciate what led this renowned Australian writer to create his celebrated fictional works, but we are also given rare glimpses into the inner world of this most private individual, whose personal demons included a dependence on alcohol, two suicide attempts, and struggles with homosexuality. Falkiner cut her teeth on six previous biographies, which stood her in good stead to tackle this challenge. Against significant odds, she has done a masterful job in painting a portrait of one of Australia's most revered writers, somewhat akin to what compatriot David Marr did for Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. It will no doubt send readers scurrying back to Stow's novels, which, as Marr once said, is the best news a biographer can hear." --World Literature Today, January-February 2017 [Subject: Biography, Literary Criticism]

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Watriama and Co

Le Jacquard

The Diet of Mothers and Children on the Island of Guam

Around Paris with Kids

Mick

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