Coral and Brass
Coral and Brass

Author: Holland M. Smith

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-06-29

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 138706861X

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Coral and Brass is the biography of General Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, known as the "father" of modern U.S. amphibious warfare. His book is a riveting first-hand account of key battles fought in the Pacific between the U.S. Army and Canadian troops against the Japanese, including assaults on the Gilbert Islands, the Marshall Islands, the island of Saipan, Tinian in the Marianas and Iwo Jimo.

World Atlas of Coral Reefs
World Atlas of Coral Reefs

Author: Mark Spalding

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780520232556

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An up-to-date, detailed, and fully-illustrated account of the biodiversity and status of coral reefs.

The Pacific Islands
The Pacific Islands

Author: Moshe Rapaport

Publisher: Bess Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9781573060424

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Forty-five contributors offer information on the physical environment, history, culture, population, economy, and living environment of the Pacific islands.

Theorising Literary Islands
Theorising Literary Islands

Author: Ian Kinane

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-11-16

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1783488085

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Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western “islomania” – or our obsession with islands – from its origins in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe right up to contemporary Robinsonade texts, focusing predominantly on American and European representations of fictionalized Pacific Island topographies in contemporary literature, film, television, and other media. Theorising Literary Islands argues that the ubiquity of island landscapes within the popular imagination belies certain ideological and cultural anxieties, and posits that the emergence of a Western popular culture tradition can largely be traced through the development of the Robinsonade genre, and through early European and American fascination with the Pacific region.