In the South Seas
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
Published: 1896
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13:
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White Savages in the South Seas
Author: Mel Kernahan
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1995-10
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781859840047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
R.L.S. in the South Seas
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840
Author: Jonathan Lamb
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001-06-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780226468488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. Preserving the Self in the South Seas also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.
White Shadows in the South Seas
Author: Frederick O'Brien
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "White Shadows in the South Seas" by Frederick O'Brien. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Writing the South Seas
Author: Brian C. Bernards
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 029580615X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPostcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
Pippi in the South Seas
Author: Astrid Lindgren
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
Love in the South Seas
Author: Bengt Danielsson
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781013915703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Southern Seas
Author: Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1612191185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year. In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell’s wife to find out what happened. Carvalho, a jaded former communist, must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master.
Bligh
Author: Anne Salmond
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 714
ISBN-13: 1742287816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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
