Author: Mel Kernahan
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859849781
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
White Savages in the South Seas
Author: Mel Kernahan
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859849781
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859849781
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
White Savages in the South Seas
Author: Mel Kernahan
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859840047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859840047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Strangers in the South Seas
Author: Richard Lansdown
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824829026
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth-such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences after Darwin's momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced other challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, a process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers--some famous, some obscure. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824829026
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth-such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences after Darwin's momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced other challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, a process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers--some famous, some obscure. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.
White Shadows in the South Seas
Author: Frederick O'Brien
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "White Shadows in the South Seas" by Frederick O'Brien. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "White Shadows in the South Seas" by Frederick O'Brien. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
White Shadows in the South Seas
Author: Frederick O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hivaoa Island
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hivaoa Island
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Ways of the South Seas Savage
Author: Robert Wood Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
Author: H. Wilfrid Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Savage South Seas
Author: Ernest Way Elkington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melanesia
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melanesia
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Ways of the South Sea Savage
Author: Robert Wood Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A lighthearted and irreverent celebration of Mexican-American culture challenges clichâes and misconceptions while offering insight into its complexity and power as an American economic force.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A lighthearted and irreverent celebration of Mexican-American culture challenges clichâes and misconceptions while offering insight into its complexity and power as an American economic force.
Australian Travellers in the South Seas
Author: Nicholas Halter
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.