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Author: Willard Price
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 009948224X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrothers Hal and Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South Seas. But the deep-sea trawl has a hidden agenda: a top secret mission for Professor Stuyvesant, and his scientific experiments in Pearl Lagoon ... Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
Author: Charles Dewell
Publisher: South Sea Publishing
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780966647204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDewell describes the adventure which follows when he and his wife leave their insurance jobs behind and set out on a two-year journey from San Diego to Hawaii via the Society and Marquesa Islands -- and back -- in a Pacific Seacraft 20-foot Flicka. Color and b&w snapshots of the protagonists with swaying palms lend a naive charm to the account.
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
Published: 1847
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Willard Price
Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 1993-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780099182511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHal and Roger Hunt are searching for exotic sea-life - and have a special mission to collect pearls from the oyster-beds of a secret lagoon. But do the crew and passengers of the LIVELY LADY know more than they should? Can anybody be trusted?
Author: Willard Price
Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780099482260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of a series of adventures featuring Hal and Roger Hunt. The boys are accompanying their zoologist father down the Amazon, to explore an uncharted river. They face the natural hazards of the jungle, hostile natives, an anonymous telegram, and a hunchback with bloodshot eyes.
Author: James A. Michener
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0804151512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some overlooked, including Sam Comstock, a mutinous sailor whose delusions of grandeur became a nightmare; Will Mariner, a golden-haired youth who used his charm to win over his captors; and William Bligh, the notorious HMS Bounty captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as. From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in Michener and Day’s capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Rascals in Paradise “The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared in a long time . . . a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on end.”—The New York Times “[Combines] research and scholarship (A. Grove Day was a professor at the University of Hawaii) with a gift for spinning a yarn and depicting character (Michener, journalist and novelist, needs no introduction).”—Kirkus Reviews
Author: John Wray
Publisher:
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781869504434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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.
Author: Diana Hill
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780522874020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the inspiration for the famed redesign of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. It was the young William Guilfoyle's botanical tour of the South Sea Islands in 1868 that provided his vision for the one of the world's great public parks. Share his excitement of discovering and collecting tropical plants, giving the local cannibals a very wide berth and being an eyewitness to an uprising in Fiji. Here is an unprecedented armchair view of the riches of this region by an emerging botanist who would later transform our understanding of garden design. Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger is Guilfoyle's detailed account of the four months he spent exploring Samoa, the Friendly Islands, Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. It is the final book of a glorious trilogy-Mr Guilfoyle's Shakespearian Botany and Mr Guilfoyle's Honeymoon, The Gardens of Europe & Great Britain-which illuminates the extraordinary genius of William Guilfoyle, botanist, landscape designer, artist and writer.
Author: Willard Price
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1849417458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce again Hal & Roger Hunt are on board the Lively Lady, studying submarine life & searching for the treasure of the Santa Cruz which sank three centuries ago. But Skink is also on board & he will stop at nothing to get the treasure.
