Thirty Years In The South Seas
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Thirty Years In The South Seas
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Author : Richard Parkinson
language : en
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Thirty Years In The South Seas written by Richard Parkinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea) categories.
Thirty Years In The South Seas
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Author : Richard Parkinson
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2010
Thirty Years In The South Seas written by Richard Parkinson and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Richard Parkinson's Thirty Years in the South Seas was first published in 1907. In this 900-page work, Parkinson drew together and expanded on the scientific and popular papers he had been publishing since 1887, creating in the process a landmark ethnography of the Bismarck Archipelago. Parkinson moved to New Britain in 1879, only seven years after the first trader had established himself in the area. Over the next thirty years, he employed many local people on the family's expanding plantations, and travelled widely in the area, trading for produce (especially coconuts), observing traditional life, and buying artefacts for museums in Europe, USA and Australia. His travels covered the islands now known as New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Manus, Buka and Bougainville, but he also collected information about the mainland of New Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelmsland). His observations covered a wide range of topics, from religious life and ceremonies to artefacts and language. It is clear he talked extensively with people - though mostly with a translator - and compared accounts. He also took many photographs, some 200 of which were included in the volume. Given the period, all his human subjects had to be posed, but the range of associated detail, probably unconsciously included, is substantial. What is particularly important about this work is the period in which it was written. While Parkinson may never have been the first contact of any local people, he was clearly among the first, and observed many societies before they were extensively incorporated into the Western economy, or missionised. Thirty Years in the South Seas is unparalleled in the literature of the Bismarck Archipelago. It is an incomparable picture of a time and place now long past.
Thirty Years In The South Seas
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Author : Richard Parkinson
language : en
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Release Date : 2000-03
Thirty Years In The South Seas written by Richard Parkinson and has been published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03 with Travel categories.
Thirty Years Among South Seas Cannibals
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Author : John G. Paton
language : en
Publisher: Bottomline Media
Release Date : 2011-08
Thirty Years Among South Seas Cannibals written by John G. Paton and has been published by Bottomline Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08 with Missionaries categories.
Thirty Years Among South Seas Cannibals
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Author : John Gibson Paton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Thirty Years Among South Seas Cannibals written by John Gibson Paton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Missionaries categories.
John G Paton Missionary To The New Hebrides
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Author : John Gibson Paton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
John G Paton Missionary To The New Hebrides written by John Gibson Paton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Christian biography categories.
Omoo Adventures In The South Seas
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: 谷月社
Release Date : 2015-12-28
Omoo Adventures In The South Seas written by Herman Melville and has been published by 谷月社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-28 with Fiction categories.
MY RECEPTION ABOARD IT WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ocean. On approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly-looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks; some of them with cheeks of a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon changes the rich berry-brown of a seaman's complexion in the tropics. On the quarter-deck was one whom I took for the chief mate. He wore a broad-brimmed Panama hat, and his spy-glass was levelled as we advanced. When we came alongside, a low cry ran fore and aft the deck, and everybody gazed at us with inquiring eyes. And well they might. To say nothing of the savage boat's crew, panting with excitement, all gesture and vociferation, my own appearance was calculated to excite curiosity. A robe of the native cloth was thrown over my shoulders, my hair and beard were uncut, and I betrayed other evidences of my recent adventure. Immediately on gaining the deck, they beset me on all sides with questions, the half of which I could not answer, so incessantly were they put. As an instance of the curious coincidences which often befall the sailor, I must here mention that two countenances before me were familiar. One was that of an old man-of-war's-man, whose acquaintance I had made in Rio de Janeiro, at which place touched the ship in which I sailed from home. The other was a young man whom, four years previous, I had frequently met in a sailor boarding-house in Liverpool. I remembered parting with him at Prince's Dock Gates, in the midst of a swarm of police-officers, trackmen, stevedores, beggars, and the like. And here we were again:—years had rolled by, many a league of ocean had been traversed, and we were thrown together under circumstances which almost made me doubt my own existence. But a few moments passed ere I was sent for into the cabin by the captain.
The Story Of Dr John G Paton S Thirty Years With South Sea Cannibals
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Author : John Gibson Paton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
The Story Of Dr John G Paton S Thirty Years With South Sea Cannibals written by John Gibson Paton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Missions categories.
Navigator In The South Seas
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Navigator In The South Seas written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Oceania categories.
Thirty three years of adventure in Australian area waters, 1928-1960.
Strangers In The South Seas
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Author : Richard Lansdown
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-04-30
Strangers In The South Seas written by Richard Lansdown 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 2006-04-30 with Social Science categories.
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth. First set down by Egyptian storytellers, Greek philosophers, and Latin poets, such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences as the region revealed gaps and anomalies in the "great chain of being" that Charles Darwin would begin to address after his momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced similar challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. Although most missionary efforts ultimately met with success, others ended in ignominious retreat. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, leading to a guilty desire on the part of some to pull out, along with an equally guilty desire on the part of others to stay and help. This process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. After more than two millennia of fantasies, the story of the West’s fascination with the insular Pacific graduated to a marked sense of disillusion that is equally visible in the paintings of Gauguin and the journalism of the nuclear Pacific. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers--some famous, some obscure. It begins in 1521 with an account of Guam by Antonio Pigafetta (one of the few men to survive Magellan's circumnavigation voyage), and ends in the late 1980s with the writing of an American woman, Joana McIntyre Varawa, as she faces the personal and cultural insecurities of marriage and settlement in Fiji. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance. Comprehensively illustrated and annotated, this anthology will introduce readers to a region central to the development of modern Western ideas. "This is a carefully conceived anthology covering an excellent range of subjects. The selections are well chosen and interesting, and the introductory materials are both scholarly and accessible. It should be widely used in university courses dealing with almost any aspect of the Pacific." —Rod Edmond, University of Kent at Canterbury