Tahiti, Voyage Through Paradise
Title | Tahiti, Voyage Through Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | George Teeple Eggleston |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2020-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1839743166 |
Cameras in hand and Tahiti in their hearts, the Egglestons started off on a French boat from Panama. Once in Papeete they revelled in its scenery, its charming people and its surrounding waters, and there is that quality to the author's description that seems to get at the heart of the place—historically and socially—as well as to the roots of its breathtaking loveliness. (Tahiti and) Moorea, Raiatea and Tahaa, of Bora Bora and finally, 500 miles further out, of gem-like Rarotonga.-Kirkus Reviews
Tahiti, Voyage Through Paradise
Title | Tahiti, Voyage Through Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | George Teeple Eggleston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2013-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258799373 |
Tahiti
Title | Tahiti PDF eBook |
Author | George T.. Eggleston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1954 |
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Tahiti. Voyage Through Paradise. The Story of a Small Boat Passage Through the Society Islands ... Illustrated from Photographs by the Author
Title | Tahiti. Voyage Through Paradise. The Story of a Small Boat Passage Through the Society Islands ... Illustrated from Photographs by the Author PDF eBook |
Author | George Teeple EGGLESTON |
Publisher | |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 1954 |
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Voyage to Paradise
Title | Voyage to Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Gowen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Tahiti |
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Description of preparations for, and voyage of, the Pambili from England across the Atlantic and through the South Pacific to New Zealand, before the Pambili was shipwrecked off Rurutu in French Polynesia.
Tahiti
Title | Tahiti PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Senn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Manuscripts, English |
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Author's signed and corrected ms., dated 1906 in Chicago, of a three-volume account of his journey to Tahiti in the winter of 1904. Dr. Senn begins with a description of his voyage across the Pacific from San Francisco aboard the steamer "Mariposa." As they approach Tahiti and Moorea after a voyage of 12 or 13 days, the author observes the string of atoll islands, with their coral formations and central lagoons fringed by cocoa palms. Because of the dangerous reefs, a native pilot is used to guide the ship safely into the harbor of Papeete. The author includes notes on the racial background, nature, and customs of the natives, as well as the sights of Papeete, such as the communal laundry washbasin, the plaza marketplace, king's palace, government school, and cathedral. There is also a lengthy section on the climate, terrain, and natural beauties of the island. Dr. Senn discusses the history of Tahiti and its rulers, and the experiences of early white visitors to the island, such as Capt. Cook of the "Endeavor" in 1769, Capt Bligh of the "Bounty" in 1788, and English missionaries in 1797. Other topics covered include education, religion, funeral ceremonies, and business in Tahiti; diseases of the natives such as tuberculosis, measles, leprosy, and elephantiasis; practices of the "kahuna" or native doctor; and important staples of the Tahitian diet such as breadfruit, manioc, cassava, arrowroot, taro, and cocoanuts. The third volume contains extensive description of cocoa palms, the abundant fruits of the island, the native species of trees, and the rural districts of Tahiti
Vanishing Paradise
Title | Vanishing Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth C. Childs |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2013-05-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520271734 |
Vanishing paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Childs explores how these artists wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern.