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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerk in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery
Author: An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780
Author: An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-west Passage Between the Continents of Asia and America
Author: William EllisAn Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke... During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-west Passage Between the Continents of Asia and America. Including a Faithful Account of All Their Discoveries, and the Unfortunate Death of Captain Cook...
Author: William EllisThe Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery
Author: J.C. BeagleholePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351543229
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1039
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Captain James Cook’s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of this edition of Cook’s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary. The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook’s second voyage. Dr Beaglehole prints the full text of Cook’s own holograph journals, followed by those of Captains Clerke and King for the course of the voyage after Cook’s death. This is a facsimile reprint of the edition published in 1967. For the print-on-demand edition, the illustrations originally in colour are reproduced in black-and-white, the fold-outs divided to fit on separate pages, and the volume itself split into two parts.
An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-west Passage Between the Continents of Asia and America
Author: William EllisReligious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia
Author: Robert W. WilliamsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107625742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Originally published in 1933, this book forms one of two volumes on the religious, mythical and cosmic structures of Central Polynesia.
Pacific Passages
Author: Patrick MoserPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824863836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A thousand years after Hawaiians first paddled long wooden boards into the ocean, modern surfers have continued this practice, which has recently been transformed into a global industry. Pacific Passages brings together four centuries of writing about surfing, the most comprehensive collection of Polynesian and Western perspectives on the history and culture of a sport currently enjoyed by millions of people around the world. The stories begin with Hawaiian legends and chants and are followed by the journals of explorers; the travel narratives of missionaries and luminaries such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Jack London; and the contemporary observations of Tom Wolfe, William Finnegan, Susan Orlean, and Bob Shacochis. Readers follow the historical transformation of surfing’s image through the centuries: from Polynesian myths of love to Western accounts of horror and exoticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to modern representations of surfing as a character-building activity in pre-World-War II California and the quintessential expression of disaffected youth. They explore the sport’s most recent trends by writers and cultural critics, whose insights into technology, competition, gender, heritage, and globalism reveal how surfing impacts some of today’s most pressing social concerns. Aided by informative introductions, the writings in Pacific Passages provide insight into the values and ideals of Polynesian and Western cultures, revealing how each has altered and been altered by surfing—and how the sport itself has shown an amazing ability throughout the centuries to survive, adapt, and prosper.
Bibliography of the Wakashan Languages
Author: James Constantine PillingPublisher:
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Category : Wakashan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia
Author: Robert Wood WilliamsonPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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