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Author : Mel Kernahan
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1995-10
White Savages In The South Seas written by Mel Kernahan and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10 with History categories.
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
White Savages In The South Seas
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Author : Mel Kernahan
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1995-10
White Savages In The South Seas written by Mel Kernahan and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10 with Travel categories.
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
White Shadows In The South Seas
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Author : Frederick O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2006-06-01
White Shadows In The South Seas written by Frederick O'Brien and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with History categories.
Vait-hua was all savage; whatever bewilderments the missionaries had brought had faded when dwindling population left the isle to its own people. In the minds of my happy companions at the vai puna, modesty had no more to do with clothing than, among us, it had to do with food.... Savage peoples can never understand our philosophy, our complex springs of action. They may ape our manners, wear our ornaments, and seek our company, but their souls remain indifferent. They laugh when we are stolid. They weep when we are unmoved. Their gods and devils are not ours. -from Chapter VII In the years prior to World War I, American author FREDERICK O'BRIEN (1869-1932) took a grand tour of the South Pacific, and the trilogy of books he wrote upon his return sparked a new thirst for all things exotic, far-flung, and gloriously "uncivilized." The first of these volumes, 1919's White Shadows in the South Seas, was a tremendous bestseller in its day, and no wonder. O'Brien romances the people and the culture of the island of Marquesas with this account of the year of drowsy afternoons and nights lit by mysterious moonlight that he spent strolling its sandy shores and basking in its island breezes. But O'Brien's is no mere travelogue: though he introduces us to beautiful young island girls with names like Vanquished Often and Malicious Gossip and discusses the vagaries of native cuisine and the time-measuring power of cigarettes, he also debates himself about the good and the harm done by Western traders and Christian missionaries and ponders the legacy outside influence will have upon the island. O'Brien offers a unique perspective on the South Seas cultures of old just as they were disappearing. OFINTEREST TO: armchair travelers, amateur anthropologists, readers of cross-cultural studies
Backwaters Of The Savage South Seas
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Author : Lucy Evelyn Cheesman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
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Among The Savages Of The South Seas Memoirs Of Micronesia 1862 1868
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Author : Alfred Tetens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Among The Savages Of The South Seas Memoirs Of Micronesia 1862 1868 written by Alfred Tetens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Micronesia categories.
The Ways Of The South Seas Savage 1914
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Author : Robert Wood Williamson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-08
The Ways Of The South Seas Savage 1914 written by Robert Wood Williamson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with Literary Collections categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Savage South Seas Classic Reprint
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Author : Norman H. Hardy
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-27
The Savage South Seas Classic Reprint written by Norman H. Hardy and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with Social Science categories.
Excerpt from The Savage South Seas Some native dances and queer costumes - Novel black mailing methods - Woman's vanity and a censured dance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Among The Savages Of The South Seas
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Author : Alfred Tetens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Among The Savages Of The South Seas written by Alfred Tetens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Micronesia categories.
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
The Ways Of The South Sea Savage
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Author : Robert W. Williamson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-05
The Ways Of The South Sea Savage written by Robert W. Williamson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-05 with Social Science categories.
Excerpt from The Ways of the South Sea Savage: A Record of Travel Observation Amongst the Savages of the Solomon Islands Primitive Coast Mountain Peoples of New Guinea The study of the more primitive races of mankind is ever a fascinating one, and no part of the globe now offers greater facilities for its enjoyment than do the islands of the South-West Pacific and New Guinea; indeed New Guinea may almost be regarded as the last stronghold of the savage; for, though it has had many white visitors and is under the government of European powers, and though much has been observed and recorded concerning the people of some of its coast-lines and the low-lying plains behind them, a great part of its mountainous interior still remains a sealed book, which no man has yet attempted to open and read. Some of these mountainous districts, however, which a few years ago could only be penetrated by an organized and strongly armed expedition, are now, thanks in part to the heroic efforts of missionaries, and in part to the gradual inward spread of Government influence and control, becoming approachable by the solitary explorer; and among these is the mountain area of the Mafulu people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.