Author: Peter DillonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas,
Author: Peter DillonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Narrative And Successful Result Of A Voyage In The South Seas, Performed By Order Of The Government Of British India, To Ascertain The Actual Fate Of La Pérouse's Expedition, Interspersed With Accounts Of The Religion, Manners, Customs, And Cannibal Practices Of The South Sea Islanders ; By The Chevalier Capt. P. Dillion, ... In Two Volumes
Author: Peter DillonNarrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas
Author: Peter DillonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108083331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
A two-volume account, published in 1829, of the sensational discovery of two French ships wrecked in the Pacific in 1788.
Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas,
Author: Peter DillonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library. Library CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Catalogue of Thurnam's Circulating Library, Carlisle
Author: Thurnam's Circulating LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Captain and "the Cannibal"
Author: James FairheadPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300198779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange odyssey the two men shared in ensuing years. The account is uniquely told, as much from the captive's perspective as from the American's. Upon returning to New York, Morrell exhibited Dako as a “cannibal” in wildly popular shows performed on Broadway and along the east coast. The proceeds helped fund a return voyage to the South Pacific—the captain hoping to establish trade with Dako's assistance, and Dako seizing his only chance to return home to his unmapped island. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrell's ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dako's life, and the two men's infusion into American literature—Dako inspired Melville's Queequeg, for example. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive.
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Author: Nancy ShoemakerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501740369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect—others' approval, admiration, or deference.
The Meeting Place
Author: Vincent O'MalleyPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775581950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
An account focusing on the encounters between the Maori and Pakeha—or European settlers—and the process of mutual discovery from 1642 to around 1840, this New Zealand history book argues that both groups inhabited a middle ground in which neither could dictate the political, economic, or cultural rules of engagement. By looking at economic, religious, political, and sexual encounters, it offers a strikingly different picture to traditional accounts of imperial Pakeha power over a static, resistant Maori society. With fresh insights, this book examines why mostly beneficial interactions between these two cultures began to merge and the reasons for their subsequent demise after 1840.