Download or read book In the South Seas written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book In the South Seas written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expect. It was suggested that I should try the South Seas; and I was not unwilling to visit like a ghost, and be carried like a bale, among scenes that had attracted me in youth and health. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit's schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four tons register; sailed from San Francisco towards the end of June 1888, visited the eastern islands, and was left early the next year at Honolulu. Hence, lacking courage to return to my old life of the house and sick-room, I set forth to leeward in a trading schooner, the Equator, of a little over seventy tons, spent four months among the atolls (low coral islands) of the Gilbert group, and reached Samoa towards the close of '89. By that time gratitude and habit were beginning to attach me to the islands; I had gained a competency of strength; I had made friends; I had learned new interests; the time of my voyages had passed like days in fairyland; and I decided to remain. I began to prepare these pages at sea, on a third cruise, in the trading steamer Janet Nicoll. If more days are granted me, they shall be passed where I have found life most pleasant and man most interesting; the axes of my black boys are already clearing the foundations of my future house; and I must learn to address readers from the uttermost parts of the sea.

Download or read book Collecting in the South Sea written by Bronwen Douglas and published by Pacific Presences. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La Pérouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java, its collections and records were subsequently scattered or lost. The book's core is a richly illustrated examination, analysis, and catalog of a large array of ethnographic objects collected during the voyage, later dispersed, and recently identified in museums in France, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. The focus on artifacts is informed by a broad conception of collecting as grounded in encounters or exchanges with Indigenous protagonists and also as materialized in other genres--written accounts, vocabularies, and visual representations (drawings, engravings, and maps). Historically, the book outlines the antecedents, occurrences, and aftermath of the voyage, including its location within the classic era of European scientific voyaging (1766-1840) and within contemporary colonial networks. Particular chapters trace the ambiguous histories of the extant collections. Ethnographically, contributors are alert to local settings, relationships, practices, and values; to Indigenous uses and significance of objects; to the reciprocal, dialogic nature of collecting; to local agency or innovation in exchanges; and to present implications of objects and their histories, especially for modern scholars and artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

Download or read book White Shadows in the South Seas written by Frederick O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is for those who stay at home yet dream of foreign places that I have written this book, a record of one happy year spent among the simple, friendly cannibals of Atuona valley, on the island of Hiva-oa in the Marquesas. In its pages there is little of profound research, nothing, I fear, to startle the anthropologist or to revise encyclopedias; such expectation was far from my thoughts when I sailed from Papeite on the Morning Star. I went to see what I should see, and to learn whatever should be taught me by the days as they came. What I saw and what I learned the reader will see and learn, and no more.

Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize

Download or read book Pippi in the South Seas written by Astrid Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Typee A Romance of the South Seas written by Herman Melville and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Download or read book The Cruise of the Kawa Wanderings in the South Seas written by George S. Chappell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Download or read book South Sea Foam The Romantic Adventures of a Modern Don Quixote in the Southern Seas written by A. Safroni- Middleton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Download or read book Omoo Adventures in the South Seas written by Herman Melville and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book In the South Seas written by Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Download or read book Cumner s Son and Other South Sea Folk written by Gilbert Parker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Omoo written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly-looking craft, her hulland spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and everythingdenoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sidesproclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks; some of themwith cheeks of a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon changes the rich berrybrown of a seaman's complexion in the tropics.On the quarter-deck was one whom I took for the chief mate. He wore a broadbrimmed Panama hat, and his spy-glass was levelled as we advanced.When we came alongside, a low cry ran fore and aft the deck, and everybodygazed at us with inquiring eyes. And well they might. To say nothing of the savageboat's crew, panting with excitement, all gesture and vociferation, my ownappearance was calculated to excite curiosity. A robe of the native cloth wasthrown over my shoulders, my hair and beard were uncut, and I betrayed otherevidences of my recent adventure. Immediately on gaining the deck, they beset meon all sides with questions, the half of which I could not answer, so incessantlywere they put

Download or read book Preserving the Self in the South Seas 1680 1840 written by Jonathan Lamb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Treasure Islands written by Pamela Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela follows in the intrepid footsteps of Fanny Stevenson, maverick wife of the even more maverick Robert Louis. They have much in common - a fascination with the South Seas, and a thirst for adventure, a fearlessness and great humour in the face of adversity and unpredictable husbands. This is her adventure - and the story of her and Fanny. Though Pamela's voyage is in a modern 112 foot clipper, she faces many of the dangers that Fanny faced - from pirates to storms to seasickness.

Download or read book Typee A Romance of the South Seas written by Herman Melville and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Typee written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruisingafter the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on thebillows of the wide-rolling Pacific-the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else!Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions were all exhausted. There is not a sweetpotato left; not a single yam. Those glorious bunches of bananas, which oncedecorated our stern and quarter-deck, have, alas, disappeared! and the deliciousoranges which hung suspended from our tops and stays-they, too, are gone! Yes, they are all departed, and there is nothing left us but salt-horse and sea-biscuit.Oh! ye state-room sailors, who make so much ado about a fourteen-days' passageacross the Atlantic; who so pathetically relate the privations and hardships of thesea, where, after a day of breakfasting, lunching, dining off five courses, chatting, playing whist, and drinking champagne-punch, it was your hard lot to be shut up inlittle cabinets of mahogany and maple, and sleep for ten hours, with nothing todisturb you but 'those good-for-nothing tars, shouting and tramping overhead', -what would ye say to our six months out of sight of la