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The Riddle Of The Pacific
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Author : John Macmillan Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
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"Ethnology of Easter island compared and contrasted with that of Polynesia and Micronesia"--Bagnall.
The Riddle Of The Pacific
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Author : John Macmillan Brown
language : en
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Release Date : 1997
The Riddle Of The Pacific written by John Macmillan Brown and has been published by Adventures Unlimited Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
The video companion to Childress's book Extraterrestrial Archeology. It reveals shocking evidence that many of the planets and moons in our solar system are or have been inhabited. Childress examines evidence that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings.
Facing The Pacific
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Author : Jeffrey A. Geiger
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2007-04-30
Facing The Pacific written by Jeffrey A. Geiger and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-30 with History categories.
The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together—and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O’Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM’s adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.
Archaeological Perspectives On Conflict And Warfare In Australia And The Pacific
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Author : Geoffrey Clark
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Archaeological Perspectives On Conflict And Warfare In Australia And The Pacific written by Geoffrey Clark and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Social Science categories.
When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island and New Zealand. The evidence for conflict and warfare encompasses defensive earthworks on Palau, fortifications on Tonga, and intricate pa sites in New Zealand. It reports evidence of reciprocal sacrifice to appease deities in several island nations, and skirmishes and smaller scale conflicts, including in Easter Island. This volume traces aspects of colonial-era conflict in Australia and frontier battles in Vanuatu, and discusses depictions of World War II materiel in the rock art of Arnhem Land. Among the causes and motives discussed in these papers are pressure on resources, the ebb and flow of significant climate events, and the significant association of conflict with culture contact. The volume, necessarily selective, eclectic and wide-ranging, includes an incisive introduction that situates the evidence persuasively in the broader scholarship addressing the history of human warfare.
Mining In The Pacific States Of North America
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Author : John Shertzer Hittell
language : en
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Release Date : 1862
Mining In The Pacific States Of North America written by John Shertzer Hittell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Quest For Origins
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Author : K. R. Howe
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2003-05-31
The Quest For Origins written by K. R. Howe and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-31 with History categories.
Did they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thoughtful and devastating critique of such "new" learning, and a careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic, and linguistics findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders. Professor Howe also examines the two-hundred-year-old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins in the context of ever-changing fads and intellectual fashions.
The Orion Prophecy
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Author : Patrick Geryl
language : en
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Release Date : 2001
The Orion Prophecy written by Patrick Geryl and has been published by Adventures Unlimited Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
In the year 2012 the Earth awaits a super catastrophe: its magnetic field will turn over in one go. Phenomenal earthquakes and tidal waves will completely destroy our civilisation. Europe and North America will shift thousands of kilometres northwards into polar climate. Nearly the whole earth's population will perish in the apocalyptic happenings. These dire predictions stem from Mayans and Egyptians -- descendants of the legendary Atlantis. The Atlanteans had highly evolved astronomical knowledge and were able to exactly calculate the previous world-wide flood in 9792 BC. They built tens of thousands of mandjits and escaped to South America and Egypt. In the year 2012 Venus, Orion and several other stars will take the same 'code positions' as in 9792 BC, the year of the previous cataclysm! For thousands of years historical sources have told of a forgotten time capsule of ancient wisdom located in a mythical labyrinth of secret chambers filled with artefacts and documents from the previous flood -- this book gives one possible location.
Robert Louis Stevenson S Pacific Impressions
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Author : Carla Manfredi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-11-11
Robert Louis Stevenson S Pacific Impressions written by Carla Manfredi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book tackles photography’s role during Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family’s previously unpublished photographs. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with letters, non-fiction, and poetry, and includes much unpublished material. The original readings of photographs and non-fiction highlight Stevenson’s engagement with colonial ideology and reality and advance new arguments about Victorian travel, settlement, and colonialisms in the Pacific. Like the Stevensons, the book moves from the Marquesas to the atolls of the Gilbert Islands in Micronesia; from the Kingdom of Hawai‘i’s political ambitions to Samoan plantations and the Stevensons’ settlement at Vailima. Central to this study is the notion that Pacific history and Pacific Island cultures matter to the interpretation of Stevenson's work, and a rigorous historical and cultural contextualization ensures that local details structure literary and photographic interpretation. The book’s historical grounding is key to its insightful conclusions regarding travel, settlement, photography, and colonialism.
Sea People
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Author : Christina Thompson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-03-12
Sea People written by Christina Thompson and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.
The Native Races Of The Pacific States Of North America
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Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
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