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Author | : Scott Hamilton |
Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0947518126 |
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‘What had happened to the stolen islanders? Had any survived slavery?’ One day in 1863 a strange ship stopped at ‘Ata, a tiny island in the wild seas between Tonga and New Zealand, and sailed away with one hundred and forty-four men, women and children. The ‘Atans were never heard from again, and in Tonga their fate became the subject of legends and superstitions. Uncovering the tragedy of ‘Ata takes Scott Hamilton on a journey to the kava circles and caves of Tonga and back to the streets of Auckland. The Stolen Island is a twenty-first century true sea story revealing slavers, mutinies, castaways, pirates and a cruel streak in Pacific history that is often overlooked but not forgotten.
Author | : Scott Hamilton |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : 'Ata Island (Tonga) |
ISBN | : 9780947518134 |
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Author | : Henry Stommel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1999-07-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780788162770 |
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During the last, & well into the present century, nautical charts & general atlases showed many islands which today are known not to have existed. The British & American Hydrographic Offices compiled lists for navigators of reported dangers where the islands were supposedly located. Oceanographer Henry Stommel's research documented the false discoveries of 100s of islands. Arranged by location, the tales combine historical & geographic interests with fascinating anecdotal material. Contains two 19th century foldout Admiralty charts of the Indian & Pacific Oceans, where most of the islands mentioned in the text are located.
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Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765347725 |
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Entries from the long-lost journal of Ven, a Nain youth, relate his adventures as he faces pirates and is rescued by a mermaid and a kindly sea captain who sends Ven to an inn, where he encounters fairies, ghosts, and other strange boarders.
Author | : Joan Druett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007-06-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"Riveting." --The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best--and at its worst. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave's schooner, the Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland Island, a forbidding piece of land 285 miles south of New Zealand. Battered by year-round freezing rain and constant winds, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island, another ship runs aground during a storm. Separated by only twenty miles and the island's treacherous, impassable cliffs, the crews of the Grafton and the Invercauld face the same fate. And yet where the Invercauld's crew turns inward on itself, fighting, starving, and even turning to cannibalism, Musgrave's crew bands together to build a cabin and a forge--and eventually, to find a way to escape. Using the survivors' journals and historical records, award-winning maritime historian Joan Druett brings to life this extraordinary untold story about leadership and the fine line between order and chaos.
Author | : Kevan Manwaring |
Publisher | : Heart of Albion Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Imaginary, otherwordly and lost islands frequently feature in literature. This study considers these mythic isles in the context of climate change and Earth itself as a threatened 'island'.
Author | : Bruce Page |
Publisher | : Tantor eBooks |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1618030655 |
Download The Murdoch Archipelago Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rupert Murdoch is one of the most powerful men in the world today. As chief executive of News Corporation, he controls a global media empire which boasts some of the major players in newspapers, television, publishing and the movie business. In the English-speaking world, and increasingly in 'untapped' but potentially lucrative markets such as China, he wields an influence as political kingmaker second to none. How did he do it? How did this empire, a loose 'archipelago' of media islands large and small, come to be so successful and influential? Building on many years' research and featuring many previously undisclosed revelations, THE MURDOCH ARCHIPELAGO is the most definitive survey yet of Murdoch's life and times; how power flows from influence; and whether this should (or if it can) be regulated.
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Total Pages | : 1222 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Biology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Margaret Mitchell Armand |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0739173626 |
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Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haïtian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haïti’s post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery and its dehumanization, Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the sociocultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression. While concentrating the narratives on stories of indigenous elites educated in the western traditions, Armand moves pass the variables of race to locate the historical conjuncture at the root of the persistent Haïtian national division. Supported by scholarships of indigenous studies and current analysis, she elucidates how a false consciousness can be overcome to reclaim cultural identity and pride, and include a sociocultural, national educational program, and political platform that embraces traditional needs in a global context of mutual respect. While shredding the western adages, and within an indigenous model of understanding, this book purposefully brings forth the struggle of the African people in Haïti.
Author | : K. Emma Ng |
Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2017-07-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0947518517 |
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A 2010 Human Rights Commission report found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand. K. Emma Ng shines light onto the persistence of anti-Asian sentiment in New Zealand. Her anecdotal account is based on her personal experience as a second-generation young Chinese-New Zealand woman. When Asian people have been living here since the gold rushes of the 1860s, she asks, what will it take for them to be fully accepted as New Zealanders?