Author: Robert James FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vanuatu
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Isles of Illusion
Author: Robert James FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vanuatu
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In the South Seas
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Letters from the South Seas
Author: Margaret Whitecross PatonPublisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN: 9780851518299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides is a missionary classic. In this companion volume, Margaret Whitecross Paton gives an enthralling account of missionary life in the New Hebrides from the 1860s to the 1890s. The steady advance of the gospel in the islands is vividly described, and the whole account is set against the background of the joys and sorrows of family life. Margaret Paton writes with rare grace, humour and pathos. Letters from the South Seas is an inspiring story, full of the triumphs of Christian faith and love, and a missionary classic in its own right- a book to prize. Margaret Whitecross Paton was the second wife of the pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides, John G. Paton. She was the daughter of the Rev. John Whitecross whose work The Shorter Catechism Illustrated was republished by the Trust. A gifted writer, musician and artist, she died in 1905.
Letters from Sea, 1882-1901
Author: Parker Bishop AlbeePublisher: Tilbury House
ISBN: 9780884482147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Colcord children spent most of their youth on their father's ships, and the family's detailed letters, logbooks, and photographs give us a splendid window into the life of a seafaring family.
South Sea Tales
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199536082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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).
Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne
Author: Laura Matilda TownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Bligh
Author: Anne SalmondPublisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742287816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as key players. From 1777, Salmond charts Bligh's three Pacific voyages – with Captain James Cook in the Resolution, on board the Bounty, and as commander of the Providence. Salmond offers new insights into the mutiny aboard the Bounty – and on Bligh's extraordinary 3000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small boat – through new revelations from unguarded letters between him and his wife Betsy. We learn of their passionate relationship, and her unstinting loyalty throughout the trials of his turbulent career and his fight to clear his name. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh as an important ethnographer, adding to the paradoxical legacy of the famed seaman. For the first time, we hear how Bligh and his men were changed by their experiences in the South Seas, and how in turn they changed that island world forever. 'Remarkable . . . The mutiny has inspired some marvellous books, of which this is possibly the finest.' --Jim Eagles, New Zealand Herald
Australian Travellers in the South Seas
Author: Nicholas HalterPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.
John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
Author: John Gibson PatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Exploration and Exchange
Author: Jonathan LambPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226468464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This anthology places the works of such well-known figures as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside the writings of lesser-known explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, and literary travellers who roamed the South Seas from the late 17th through the late 19th centuries.