Author: John Henry Macartney Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Alison Ballance
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552976098
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The history and ecosystems of 14 South Sea Islands: Easter Island, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Madagascar, French Polynesia, Galapagos, Komodo, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Tasmania, Lord Howe, Phillip, and New Caledonia.

Author: Lowell Don Holmes
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574091304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Not only the British writer himself, already famous for novels and poems, but his family with him took to the sea between 1888 and 1890 to search Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia for Robert's health and adventure. Writer and film maker Holmes (emeritus anthropology, Wichita State U. Kansas) has

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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"The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Seas island, are memories apart, and touched by a virginity of sense." -Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas This jacketed hardcover edition of In the South Seas (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson offers observations the author made during a voyage to the Marquesas, the Paumotus, and the Gilbert Islands in 1888-89. Originally written as a journal, the book that evolved from these notes went beyond an amusing traveler-centered description of his experiences to provide a more theme-based narrative, adding discussions of the South Seas culture, language, traditions, and society: anthropology, history, and sociology, together with personal impressions and anecdotes.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mel Kernahan
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859849781
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775414434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Get set for a swashbuckling series of adventures. In this volume, Robert Louis Stevenson -- famed author of such classics as Treasure Island and Kidnapped -- presents a series of articles and essays recounting his own travels around the Pacific. A must-read for fans of Stevenson's unique brand of high-seas action and excitement.

Author: Musée Barbier-Mueller
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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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: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199536082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).