Stranger from the South Seas
Title | Stranger from the South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Lyn James |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Strangers in the South Seas
Title | Strangers in the South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lansdown |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0824829026 |
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.
In the Strange South Seas
Title | In the Strange South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Beatrice Grimshaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN |
In the Strange South Seas
Title | In the Strange South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2012-08-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781290908351 |
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Dave Porter in the South Seas
Title | Dave Porter in the South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Stratemeyer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Adventure stories |
ISBN |
In the Strange South Seas
Title | In the Strange South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw |
Publisher | Palala Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-05-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781357701338 |
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In the Strange South Seas (Classic Reprint)
Title | In the Strange South Seas (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2018-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780332938479 |
Excerpt from In the Strange South Seas New Woman in Niué - Devil-fish and water-snakes - An Island of Ghosts - How the witch-doctor died - The Life of a Trader u f. 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.