The Riddle of the Pacific

The Riddle of the Pacific
Title The Riddle of the Pacific PDF eBook
Author John Macmillan Brown
Publisher Adventures Unlimited Press
Pages 476
Release 1997
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780932813299

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The video companion to Childress's book Extraterrestrial Archeology. It reveals shocking evidence that many of the planets and moons in our solar system are or have been inhabited. Childress examines evidence that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings.

The Riddle of the Pacific

The Riddle of the Pacific
Title The Riddle of the Pacific PDF eBook
Author John Macmillan Brown
Publisher
Pages 472
Release 1925
Genre Chile
ISBN

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"Ethnology of Easter island compared and contrasted with that of Polynesia and Micronesia"--Bagnall.

The Pacific Reporter

The Pacific Reporter
Title The Pacific Reporter PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1148
Release 1920
Genre Law reports, digests, etc
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Sailing the Pacific

Sailing the Pacific
Title Sailing the Pacific PDF eBook
Author Miles Hordern
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 263
Release 2014-05-20
Genre Travel
ISBN 1466871962

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Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, and into the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and swells of monumental proportions. The trip would take him through the fjords of Patagonia, one of the last uncharted areas in the world, then north on the Peru Current before he began his homeward voyage. Sailing the Pacific recounts that trip in prose so vivid you can almost feel the spray sting your face and the deck heave beneath your feet. Here is prose so hawser-taut that it takes you back to Conrad, Melville, and Poe, indeed all those writers whose works about the bounding main have launched countless imaginations. Hordern pauses to consider those who have gone before him, recounting the stories that have given life to this lonely and magisterial part of the world. Writers, adventurers, fictional characters, cartographers, doomed voyages from history's pages—from the Whaleship S.S. Essex to the HMS Bounty: the South Pacific drew them all, and in their way they left mark on its vast surface. Part sailing yarn, part adventure story, part homage to an unending but beckoning horizon, Sailing the Pacific will appeal to the sailor in each one of us, whatever the way we choose to answer the ocean's call.

Facing the Pacific

Facing the Pacific
Title Facing the Pacific PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey A. Geiger
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 313
Release 2007-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 0824862457

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The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together—and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O’Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM’s adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.

South Pacific Handbook

South Pacific Handbook
Title South Pacific Handbook PDF eBook
Author Bill Dalton
Publisher David Stanley
Pages 364
Release 1979
Genre Islands of the Pacific
ISBN 9780804813136

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Provides historical and travel information for visitors to Polynesia, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga Islands, Fiji Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Micronesia

Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific

Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific
Title Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific PDF eBook
Author Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 287
Release 2008-10-31
Genre History
ISBN 0824865448

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Islands—as well as entire continents—are reputed to have disappeared in many parts of the world. Yet there is little information on this subject concerning its largest ocean, the Pacific. Over the years, geologists have amassed data that point to the undeniable fact of islands having disappeared in the Pacific, a phenomenon that the oral traditions of many groups of Pacific Islanders also highlight. There are even a few instances where fragments of Pacific continents have disappeared, becoming hidden from view rather than being submerged. In this scientifically rigorous yet readily comprehensible account of the fascinating subject of vanished islands and hidden continents in the Pacific, the author ranges far and wide, from explanations of the region’s ancient history to the meanings of island myths. Using both original and up-to-date information, he shows that there is real value in bringing together myths and the geological understanding of land movements. A description of the Pacific Basin and the "ups and downs" of the land within its vast ocean is followed by chapters explaining how—long before humans arrived in this part of the world—islands and continents that no longer exist were once present. A succinct account is given of human settlement of the region and the establishment of cultural contexts for the observation of occasional catastrophic earth-surface changes and their encryption in folklore. The author also addresses the persistent myths of a "sunken continent" in the Pacific, which became widespread after European arrival and were subsequently incorporated into new age and pseudoscience explanations of our planet and its inhabitants. Finally, he presents original data and research on island disappearances witnessed by humans, recorded in oral and written traditions, and judged by geoscience to be authentic. Examples are drawn from throughout the Pacific, showing that not only have islands collapsed, and even vanished, within the past few hundred years, but that they are also liable to do so in the future.