Hunters of Hahl
Hunters of Hahl

Author: Jack Henry Psaila

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1984500074

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A hundred years ago, the Great Dahrk Village was destroyed by an enormous monster known as Preature. Since then, the survivors have been divided and broken down into various wandering tribal groups. Aldra, single father and lead hunter of the Hahls, has control over the tribe during their harshest period. Population count is down, there are fewer hunters every cycle, and his closest friends, the Elites, have all but perished. He must do what needs to be done for the survival of the tribe, but how far will he go to? He meets with the Fury Pride and the Dahrk Clan to form alliances in hopes of finally killing the great beast Preature and reforming the once great village that was lost so long ago.

Hunting the Gatherers
Hunting the Gatherers

Author: Michael O'Hanlon

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0857456911

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Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that look back at the artefact-producing societies and their interaction with the collectors, but also forward to the fate of the collections in metropolitan museums, as the artefacts have been variously exhibited, neglected, re-conceived as indigenous heritage, or repatriated. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture.

Plumes from Paradise
Plumes from Paradise

Author: Pamela Swadling

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2019-12

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1743325460

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The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, plumes, sea slugs, shells and pearls all brought traders from distant markets. Among the most sought-after was the bird of paradise. Their magnificent plumes bedecked the hats of fashion-conscious women in Europe and America, provided regalia for the Kings of Nepal, and decorated the headdresses of Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Plumes from Paradise tells the story of this interaction, and of the economic, political, social and cultural consequence for the island's inhabitants. It traces 400 years of economic and political history, culminating in the 'plume boom' of the early part of the 20th century, when an unprecedented number of outsiders flocked to the island's coasts and hinterlands. The story teems with the variety of people involved: New Guineans, Indonesians, Chinese, Europeans, hunters, traders, natural historians and their collectors, officials, missionaries, planters, miners, adventurers of every kind. In the wings were the conservationists, whose efforts brought the slaughter of the plume boom to an end and ushered in an era of comparative isolation for the island that lasted until World War II.

Sea Serpents: On the Hunt in British Columbia
Sea Serpents: On the Hunt in British Columbia

Author: Pat Spain

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2023-01-27

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1789046556

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Pat Spain is used to doing things that he acknowledges are not normal — such as lying in a pit of 200,000 snakes or having a pygmy village take excessive interest in his bathroom habits. /Sea Serpents: On the Hunt in British Columbia/ chronicles the coolest thing this host of multiple wildlife-adventure TV series has done yet — traveling 1,000 feet underwater in a three-man sub. Follow Spain, and the National Geographic film crew that went with him, as he sets sail on a commercial fishing boat with a dozen angry men; plays a dangerous, absolutely bonkers sport; almost falls off a mountain while drunkenly hiking; and then some. Spain puts his marine biology degree to good use by getting drunk off the fumes of a pickled specimen of the largest bony fish on Earth, all in an effort to track down the truth behind stories of a giant Canadian sea serpent. The answer to the mystery probably isn't what you're thinking.