Download or read book In Search of the Friendly Islands written by Kalafi Moala and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the dilemmas, paradoxes and challenges of modern Tonga. An examination of how tradition and modernity co-exist in Tongan society and in the diasporic Tongan communities in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. Examines issues including domestic violence, the culture of domination and hierarchy, traditional and modern leadership, the 16/11 riots, economic development, globalisation and spirituality.
Download or read book Friendly Islands written by Noel Rutherford and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Searching for Crusoe written by Thurston Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They inspire feelings of great passion, serenity, and sometimes fear . . . they give people the opportunity to find themselves--or to lose their minds . . . they are revered as paradise or treated as junkyards . . . both haunted by and respectful of history . . . they are central to the myths and religions of many peoples throughout time . . . they provide a real, friendly community or the hell of repetitive social encounters . . . What is it about islands that has captivated millions of people around the world and through the centuries? In a penetrating, brilliantly written book that weaves sociology, history, politics, personality, and ancient and popular culture into one compelling narrative, Thurston Clarke island-hops around the oceans of the world, searching for an explanation for the most passionate and enduring geographic love affair of all time--between humankind and islands. Along the way Clarke visits the remote and silent Mas À Tierra, the island off the coast of Chile that inspired Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe; tropical Banda Neira, one of the Spice Islands, where its self-crowned prince hopes for nothing less than nutmeg's complete and glorious revival; sleepy, simple Campobello, the Canadian island where Franklin D. Roosevelt spent his boyhood summers; Patmos, with its imposing mountaintop monastery; Malekula, once the most notorious cannibal island in the world; and Jura in Scotland's Hebrides, where George Orwell wrote 1984--the island that turned Clarke into a islomane, someone Lawrence Durrell says experiences an "indescribable intoxication" at finding himself in "a little world surrounded by the sea." Despite colonialism and missionary conversions, wartime scars and shrinking coasts, islands have thrived. Though each island is unique in its own way, Clarke discovers that the islanders themselves are a distinct people-- tranquilized by their watery horizons yet sensitive to the first shift in weather, conservative yet more likely to drop their inhibitions because no one is looking. And over every island falls the shadow of Robinson Crusoe, persuading us that islands are more liberating than confining, more contemplative than lonely, more holy than barbaric because we have been "removed from all the wickedness of the world." In a stunning work of wit, adventure, and incisive exploration, Thurston Clarke brings a unique passion to dazzling life.
Download or read book A Second Missionary Visit to the Friendly and Feejee Islands in the Year MDCCCL Edited by the Rev Elijah Hoole Second Edition written by Walter LAWRY and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stolen Island written by Scott Hamilton and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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.
Download or read book Voyage in Search of La P rouse written by Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asiatick Researches written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Second Missionary Visit to the Friendly and Feejee Islands in the Year MDCCCL written by Walter Lawry and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asiatic Researches written by Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Polynesia written by Robert D. Craig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast. Thousands of islands are scattered throughout this area, most of which are currently included in one of the modern island states of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Polynesia greatly expands on the previous editions through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Polynesian history from the earliest times to the present. Appendixes of the major islands and atolls within Polynesia, the rulers and administrators of the 13 major island states, and basic demographic information of those states are also included.
Download or read book Chasing the Bounty written by Donald A. Maxton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora--dispatched to track down the mutineers and return them to England for court-martial--and the Matavy, a schooner built by the mutineers in Tahiti. This is the first book to include eyewitness accounts from five men who endured these voyages. Presented in overlapping, chronological order are the first publication of a narrative by a member of Matavy's crew, who vividly describes a desperate struggle to survive with meager provisions among islands filled with hostile natives. A previously unpublished poem by an anonymous sailor on Pandora recounts the ship's sinking, the survivors' tortuous journey to the Dutch East Indies, and their return to England. The captain's unedited statement on the loss of Pandora is included and appendices summarize the Bounty and Pandora courts-martial and the later history of each narrator.
Download or read book Phantom Islands written by Dirk Liesemer and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the famed Atlantis to the remote Rupes Nigra, islands have long held our fascination: they are locales isolated from ordinary life, lurking in unexplored corners of the globe and thus full of undisclosed mysteries. At times, however, our fascination with islands has bled into reality, as real maps bear the coordinates of fictional lands and travelogues tell tall tales of their inhabitants, their natural wonders, or their treasures. In Phantom Islands, Dirk Liesemer tells the stories of thirty of these fantastical islands. Beginning with their supposed discovery, he recreates their fabled landscapes, the voyages that attempted to verify their existence, and, ultimately, the moment when their existence was finally disproven. Spanning oceans and centuries, these curious tales are a chronicle of human lust for discovery and wealth. Beautifully illustrated with colored maps and charts, Phantom Islands shows the cunning of imposters and frauds, the earnestness of explorers searching for knowledge, and the pleasure that can be found in our willingness to deceive and to be deceived.
Download or read book Islands of Resistance written by Mario Murillo and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.: the limited clemency granted by then-President Clinton to eleven Puerto Rican Nationalists, and the death of Puerto Rican civilian security guard David Sanes, killed by missile fragments from U.S. naval bombing tests on the island municipality of Vieques. How does Vieques fit into the political future of Puerto Rico? While anti-Navy protesters are careful not to mix the island's political status options with their battle against the Navy, it is important to understand the role Washington has played in shaping Puerto Rico's current reality and how it has allowed the Navy to use Vieques as a bombing range for 60 years. It also helps one begin to predict what is the future of Puerto Rico. Is it to be a colony? Fifty-first state of the United States? Sovereign nation? In Islands of Resistance, Mario A. Murillo approaches these questions by examining how Puerto Rican politics have been shaped as much by 100 years of U.S. economic, military, and cultural domination of the territory, as by the enduring grassroots resistance of the Puerto Rican people. Islands of Resistance puts the contemporary situation in Puerto Rico into an historic context that will help people understand what is at stake in Vieques, not only for Viequenses, but for Puerto Ricans, both on the island and in the diaspora.
Download or read book The Wesleyan Missionary Notices Relating Principally to the Foreign Missions First Established by the Rev John Wesley M A the Rev Dr Coke and Others and Now Carried on Under the Direction of the Methodist Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
