In the South Seas
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Polynesia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Polynesia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mel Kernahan |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1995-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781859849781 |
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan Lamb |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2001-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226468496 |
The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. Preserving the Self in the South Seas also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.
Author | : Brian C. Bernards |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-12-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 029580615X |
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
Author | : Bengt Danielsson |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013915703 |
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Author | : Astrid Lindgren |
Publisher | : Peter Smith Publisher |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780844669748 |
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
Author | : Richard Parkinson |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824822453 |
"Richard Parkinson's Dreissig Jahre in der Sudsee 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." "His travels covered the islands now known as New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Manus, and Buka and Bougainville, but he also collected information about the mainland of New Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelmsland). His observations covered a wide range, 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 very wide."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : John La Farge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 605 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Fiji |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Cosimo Classics |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Seas island, are memories apart, and touched by a virginity of sense." -Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas This jacketed hardcover edition of In the South Seas (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson offers observations the author made during a voyage to the Marquesas, the Paumotus, and the Gilbert Islands in 1888-89. Originally written as a journal, the book that evolved from these notes went beyond an amusing traveler-centered description of his experiences to provide a more theme-based narrative, adding discussions of the South Seas culture, language, traditions, and society: anthropology, history, and sociology, together with personal impressions and anecdotes.