Author: Colin Jack-HintonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The European Discovery, Rediscovery and Exploration of the Solomon Islands, 1568-1838
Author: Colin Jack-HintonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Naturalist and His 'beautiful Islands'
Author: David Russell LawrencePublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1925022021
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
‘I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons … Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one’s life’. Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singlehandedly. His career in the Pacific extended beyond the Solomon Islands. He worked briefly for the Western Pacific High Commission in Fiji, was a temporary consul in Samoa, and travelled as a Government Agent on a small labour vessel returning indentured workers to the Gilbert Islands. As an independent naturalist he made three successful expeditions to the islands, and even climbed Mt Popomanaseu, the highest mountain in Guadalcanal. However, his natural history collection of over 20,000 specimens, held by the British Museum of Natural History, has not been comprehensively examined. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in order to control the Pacific Labour Trade and to counter possible expansion by French and German colonialists. It remaining an impoverished, largely neglected protectorate in the Western Pacific whose economic importance was large-scale copra production, with its copra considered the second-worst in the world. This book is a study of Woodford, the man, and what drove his desire to establish a colonial protectorate in the Solomon Islands. In doing so, it also addresses ongoing issues: not so much why the independent state broke down, but how imperfectly it was put together in the first place.
The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568
Author: Alvaro de Mendaña de NeiraPublisher:
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Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Discovery of the Solomon Islands in 1568
Author: Alvaro de MendañaThe Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568
Author: William Amhurst Thyssen AmherstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Solomon Islands (British Solomon Islands Protectorate)
Author: N. W. PosnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568
Author: Lord Amherst of HackneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317035615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Four narratives, edited with introduction and notes, two of them by or attributed to Mendaña's companions, Hernando Gallego and Pedro Sarmiento. This and the following volume (Second Series 8) have continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1901.
The Discovery of the Solomon Islands, in 1568
Author: The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568...
Author: Sir Basil Home ThomsonThe Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro De Menda?a in 1568
Author: Basil ThomsonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876732168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Translated from the original Spanish manuscripts.