Author: John DysonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780434219612
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The South Seas Dream
Author: John DysonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780434219612
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Island Dreams: A Woman's Solo Journey to New Zealand and the South Seas
Author: Pamela MorganPublisher: River Sanctuary Publishing
ISBN: 9781952194146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Accompany Pam as she explores quaint towns and villages, pristine beaches and breathtaking vistas above and below water, at times exploring alone, oftentimes in the company of endearing characters who team up with her along the way.
White Savages in the South Seas
Author: Mel KernahanPublisher: 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
Pippi in the South Seas
Author: Astrid LindgrenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
The South Seas
Author: Sean BrawleyPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739193368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of particular productions, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon explore the ways in which authors’ and producers’ ideas about the South Seas were “haunted” by others who had written on the subject, and how they in turn influenced future generations of knowledge producers. The South Seas is unique in its examination of an array of cultural texts. Along with the foundational literary texts that established and perpetuated the South Seas tradition in written form, the authorsexplore diverse cultural forms such as art, music, theater, film, fairs, platform speakers, surfing culture, and tourism.
Dream of Islands; Voyages of Self-Discovery in the South Seas
Author: Gavan DawsStrangers in the South Seas
Author: Richard LansdownPublisher: 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.
A Dream of Islands
Author: Gavan DawsPublisher: Jacaranda
ISBN:
Category : Europeans
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Highlights five nineteenth-century travelers who explored the South Seas and made discoveries about themselves.
An Affair of the South Seas
Author: Leigh Hadley IrvinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The South Seas (Melanesia)
Author: John Henry Macartney AbbottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description