Author: Edward Reeves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Brown Men and Women
Author: Edward Reeves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Where the Waves Fall
Author: K.R. Howe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000858073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Where the Waves Fall (1984) centres the stories of the Pacific Islanders and how they were affected by European explorers and colonisers in this unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands. It follows the fortunes of the seafarers who discovered island after island in the world’s largest ocean, traces the development of their civilisations and examines in depth the interaction between them and the newcomers – European explorers, traders, beachcombers, missionaries, merchants – who from the sixteenth century came in an increasing series of waves. The book’s framework enables the author to throw new light on hitherto isolated events. Novel suggestions are advanced as to why some islands became ‘kingdoms’ in the earlier years of European contact and why others did not, and of how and why missionaries were accepted on some islands but not on others. Nor does Professor Howe shrink from provocative and at times controversial arguments concerning the ambitions and strategies of island leaders and indeed the overall nature and extent of the initiatives taken by the islanders.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000858073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Where the Waves Fall (1984) centres the stories of the Pacific Islanders and how they were affected by European explorers and colonisers in this unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands. It follows the fortunes of the seafarers who discovered island after island in the world’s largest ocean, traces the development of their civilisations and examines in depth the interaction between them and the newcomers – European explorers, traders, beachcombers, missionaries, merchants – who from the sixteenth century came in an increasing series of waves. The book’s framework enables the author to throw new light on hitherto isolated events. Novel suggestions are advanced as to why some islands became ‘kingdoms’ in the earlier years of European contact and why others did not, and of how and why missionaries were accepted on some islands but not on others. Nor does Professor Howe shrink from provocative and at times controversial arguments concerning the ambitions and strategies of island leaders and indeed the overall nature and extent of the initiatives taken by the islanders.
A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands
Author: John Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The South Seas (Melanesia)
Author: John Henry Macartney Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
South Sea Islands
Author: Alison Ballance
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552976098
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552976098
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The World in Miniature
Author: Frederic Shoberl
Publisher:
ISBN: 1421225751
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Frederic Shoberl in London, 1820. This book contains color illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1421225751
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Frederic Shoberl in London, 1820. This book contains color illustrations.
Treasured Islands
Author: Lowell Don Holmes
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574091304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574091304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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
South Sea Islands
Author: Simon Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405207287
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Explorers wanted is an exciting new non-fiction series aimed at children of 10+. Each book in the series presents the reader with an exciting expedition to tackle, and is crammed with fascinating information, gruesome details and cool facts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405207287
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Explorers wanted is an exciting new non-fiction series aimed at children of 10+. Each book in the series presents the reader with an exciting expedition to tackle, and is crammed with fascinating information, gruesome details and cool facts.
South Sea Tales
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: 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).
Publisher: 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).
The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade
Author: William T. Wawn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alien Labour --australia --queensland
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alien Labour --australia --queensland
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description