Author: Alfred Percival 1850-1931 Maudslay
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014871886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago
Author: Alfred Percival 1850-1931 Maudslay
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014871886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014871886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago
Author: Alfred Percival 1850-1931 Maudslay
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014132284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014132284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago ... With ... 2 Plates and a Map
Author: Alfred Percival MAUDSLAY
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Fifty years ago c. 2
Forty Years on the Pacific
Author:
Publisher: New York : Oceanic Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Oceanic Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Overland Monthly
The Pacific
Up and Down
Author: William Jackson Barry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Forty Years on the Pacific
Author: Frank Coffee
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330273418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Excerpt from Forty Years on the Pacific: The Lure of the Great Ocean, a Book of Reference for the Traveler A good many years ago - more than I like to confess - it dawned on me that I was getting too old for the deck sports that enliven a long sea-voyage; so I decided on a new sport for myself: to pass the time in setting down impressions of ocean travel, the places I visited, and the interesting side-lights on life that came to my attention. The first result was a series of letters to friends, the second, a number of newspaper interviews, and finally the present volume. My original intention was to confine myself to personal experiences, but the more I studied the conditions of the Pacific, its marvelous panorama of countries and peoples, the more fascinated I became with my subject, and it grew far beyond my initial purpose; I felt compelled to take in a wider range, to include general information and jottings that covered a period of more than forty years. I have sailed other oceans, but the Pacific is the one I know and love the best. The book I offer you is therefore primarily about my favorite ocean, the Pacific, although I wander now and again in my narrative to other waters for example and comparison. Some of the subjects held up for consideration may not prove of prime interest to all readers, but at least my guiding principle in selecting them has been the knowledge - I venture to claim - of what interests most persons. As an old campaigner, meeting all sorts and conditions of people, and mingling with them as one of the eternal human comedy, I have had unusual opportunities of finding out what the average mind responds to. Hence, I have tried to let common understanding direct my pen. This work is largely reminiscent, a fact permitting me the widest latitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330273418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Excerpt from Forty Years on the Pacific: The Lure of the Great Ocean, a Book of Reference for the Traveler A good many years ago - more than I like to confess - it dawned on me that I was getting too old for the deck sports that enliven a long sea-voyage; so I decided on a new sport for myself: to pass the time in setting down impressions of ocean travel, the places I visited, and the interesting side-lights on life that came to my attention. The first result was a series of letters to friends, the second, a number of newspaper interviews, and finally the present volume. My original intention was to confine myself to personal experiences, but the more I studied the conditions of the Pacific, its marvelous panorama of countries and peoples, the more fascinated I became with my subject, and it grew far beyond my initial purpose; I felt compelled to take in a wider range, to include general information and jottings that covered a period of more than forty years. I have sailed other oceans, but the Pacific is the one I know and love the best. The book I offer you is therefore primarily about my favorite ocean, the Pacific, although I wander now and again in my narrative to other waters for example and comparison. Some of the subjects held up for consideration may not prove of prime interest to all readers, but at least my guiding principle in selecting them has been the knowledge - I venture to claim - of what interests most persons. As an old campaigner, meeting all sorts and conditions of people, and mingling with them as one of the eternal human comedy, I have had unusual opportunities of finding out what the average mind responds to. Hence, I have tried to let common understanding direct my pen. This work is largely reminiscent, a fact permitting me the widest latitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Paradise of the Pacific
Author: Susanna Moore
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374298777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants -- legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. Susanna Moore pieces together the story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii -- its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers -- a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374298777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants -- legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. Susanna Moore pieces together the story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii -- its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers -- a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.