The Trial of the Cannibal Dog
Title | The Trial of the Cannibal Dog PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Salmond |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300100922 |
The extraordinary story of Captain Cook's encounters with the Polynesian Islanders is retold here in bold, vivid style, capturing the complex (and sometimes sexual) relationships between the explorers and the Islanders as well as the unresolved issues that led to Cook's violent death on the shores of Hawaii. (History)
Bligh
Title | Bligh PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Salmond |
Publisher | Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 2011-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1742287816 |
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as key players. From 1777, Salmond charts Bligh's three Pacific voyages – with Captain James Cook in the Resolution, on board the Bounty, and as commander of the Providence. Salmond offers new insights into the mutiny aboard the Bounty – and on Bligh's extraordinary 3000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small boat – through new revelations from unguarded letters between him and his wife Betsy. We learn of their passionate relationship, and her unstinting loyalty throughout the trials of his turbulent career and his fight to clear his name. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh as an important ethnographer, adding to the paradoxical legacy of the famed seaman. For the first time, we hear how Bligh and his men were changed by their experiences in the South Seas, and how in turn they changed that island world forever. 'Remarkable . . . The mutiny has inspired some marvellous books, of which this is possibly the finest.' --Jim Eagles, New Zealand Herald
Aphrodite's Island
Title | Aphrodite's Island PDF eBook |
Author | Penguin Group Australia |
Publisher | Viking |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2016-11-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780143770848 |
"Aphrodite's Islandis a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status that has figured so powerfully in European imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of 'savages'. In this ground-breaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the centre of the shared history to furnish rich insights into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full extent of European fascination with Tahiti. As she discerns the impact and meaning of the European effect on the islands, she demonstrates how, during the early contact period, the mythologies of Europe and Tahiti intersected and became entwined. Drawing on Tahitian oral histories, European manuscripts and artworks, collections of Tahitian artefacts, and illustrated with contemporary sketches, paintings, and engravings from the voyages, Aphrodite's Islandprovides a vivid account of the Europeans' Tahitian adventures. At the same time, the book's compelling insights into Tahitian life significantly change the way we view the history of this small island during a period when it became a crossroads for Europe."
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist
Title | The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Fullagar |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300243065 |
A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two Indigenous men, the Cherokee Ostenaco and the Ra'iatean Mai. Fullagar uncovers the life of Ostenaco, tracing his emergence as a warrior, his engagement with colonists through war and peace, and his eventual rejection of imperial politics during the American Revolution. She delves into the story of Mai, examining his confrontation with conquest and displacement, his voyage to London on Cook's imperial expedition, and his return home with a burning ambition to right past wrongs. Woven throughout is a new history of Reynolds--growing up in Devon near a key port in England, becoming a portraitist of empire, rising to the top of Britain's art world, and yet remaining ambivalent about his nation's expansionist trajectory.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Title | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | SAMPI Books |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2024-02-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 6561332016 |
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.
Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind
Title | Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Salmond |
Publisher | Auckland University Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2023-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1776711092 |
For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated &‘ te ao hurihuri' &– travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal on the meaning of Te Tiriti in the 2000s. From Hui to The Trial of the Cannibal Dog to today' s debates about the future of Aotearoa, Anne Salmond has explored who we are to each other.This book traces Anne Salmond' s journey as an anthropologist, as a writer and activist, as a Pakeha New Zealander, as a friend, wife and mother. The book brings together her key writing on the Maori world, cultural contact, Te Tiriti and the wider Pacific &– much of it appearing in book form for the first time &– and embeds these writings in her life and relationships, her travels and friends.This is the story of Aotearoa and the story of one woman' s pathway through our changing land.
Captain Cook
Title | Captain Cook PDF eBook |
Author | Glyndwr Williams |
Publisher | Boydell Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781843831006 |
Essays reassess Cook's standing as a leading figure in eighteenth-century history, exploration and the advancement of science.