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Book An Account of the Pelew Islands

Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands written by George Keate and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Pelew Islands  Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean

Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean written by George Keate and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the journey of the Antelope which was shipwrecked off the coast of the Palau Islands; the experiences of the crew on the Palau Islands; and their return to England with Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons; and of the death of Lee Boo from smallpox. Supplement: Account of the voyage to the Palau Islands of the Panther and Endeavour under the command of Captain John M'Cluer, to bring the news to King Abba Thulle of his son's death in England.

Book An Account of the Pelew Islands     A new edition

Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands A new edition written by George KEATE and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Pelew Islands     composed from the journals     of Captain Henry Wilson  and some of his officers     by G  Keate   With plates and a map

Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands composed from the journals of Captain Henry Wilson and some of his officers by G Keate With plates and a map written by George KEATE and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Pelew Islands     Composed from the journals and communications of Captain Henry Wilson  and some of his officers  etc   With plates  including a portrait  and maps

Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands Composed from the journals and communications of Captain Henry Wilson and some of his officers etc With plates including a portrait and maps written by George KEATE and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Pelew Islands

Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands written by George Keate and published by Leicester University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1783 the East India Company packet, the Antelope, was wrecked on the Pelew Islands (modern Micronesia). Captain Henry Wilson and his crew developed unusually amicable relations with the Palauan inhabitants, and when they departed, the 'prince' Lee Boo went with them to Britain. Lee Boo was a figure of fashionable interest in London, at once highly regarded for his intelligence, yet treated also as an exotic curiosity. His death from smallpox in 1784 occasioned wide regretful comment. An Account of the Pelew Islands is based on extensive interviews with Captain Wilson, Lee Boo and other participants. This new edition reproduces the text and includes essays on its significance for late eighteenth-century European culture and on the Micronesian dimensions of the voyage and the book. Annotations explain and contextualize points of historical and ethnographic significance and the original fine engraved portraits, artifacts and charts as well as clear new maps are included.

Book An Account of the Pelew Islands

Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands written by George Keate and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Pelew Islands

Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands written by George Keate and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Taint of Civilization

Download or read book The First Taint of Civilization written by Francis X. Hezel and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hezel writes clearly and with erudition and commands an impressive body of information. His book is a tour de force.... Not only will it be read eagerly by Pacific scholars, but it should find a wide audience among well-educated Micronesians hungry for greater understanding of how their islands have become ensnared in world geopolitics.” —Ethnohistory

Book Bibliography of the Philippine Islands

Download or read book Bibliography of the Philippine Islands written by Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of the Philippine Islands

Download or read book Bibliography of the Philippine Islands written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australasian Bibliography  in Three Parts

Download or read book Australasian Bibliography in Three Parts written by Public Library of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural History of Man

Download or read book Natural History of Man written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travels  Explorations and Empires  1770 1835  Part II Vol 8

Download or read book Travels Explorations and Empires 1770 1835 Part II Vol 8 written by Tim Fulford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.

Book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands written by Max Quanchi and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.

Book Changing Contexts  Shifting Meanings

Download or read book Changing Contexts Shifting Meanings written by Elfriede Hermann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis. The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of tradition. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, contributors stake out a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people—their ideas, actions, and objects—and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present—with indigenous agency being highlighted. The work focuses first on early encounters, initially between Pacific Islanders themselves and later with the European navigators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to clarify how meaningful actions and contexts interrelated in the past. The present-day memories of Pacific Islanders are examined to ask how such memories represent encounters that occurred long ago and how they influenced the social, political, economic, and religious changes that ensued. Next, contributors address ongoing social and structural interactions that social actors enlist to shape their traditions within the context of globalization and then the repercussions that these intersections and intercultural exchanges of discourses and practices are having on active identity formation as practiced by Pacific Islanders. Finally, two authorities on Oceania—who themselves move in the intersecting space between anthropology and history—discuss the essays and add their own valuable reflections. With its wealth of illuminating analyses and illustrations, Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of cultural and social anthropology, history, art history, museology, Pacific studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism. Contributors: Aletta Biersack, Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon, Bronwen Douglas, David Hanlon, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Peter Hempenstall, Margaret Jolly, Miriam Kahn, Martha Kaplan, John D. Kelly, Wolfgang Kempf, Gundolf Krüger, Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris, Lamont Lindstrom, Karen Nero, Ton Otto, Anne Salmond, Serge Tcherkézoff, Paul van der Grijp, Toon van Meijl.