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Book Voyage to Te Wai Pounamu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lee Traynor
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2014-09-12
  • ISBN : 3735775187
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Voyage to Te Wai Pounamu written by Lee Traynor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holidaying in New Zealand and adventure activities like bungee jumping, canyon swinging, and jetboating up wild rivers are virtually synonymous. But there are other adventures that this country–one of the most isolated in the world–offers. Finding them may not be that easy, nor is getting there and back in one piece. Lee Traynor has therefore explored the two main southern islands of New Zealand: The South Island (Te Wai Pounamu) and Stewart Island, and undertaken a number of shorter and longer hikes (tramps). Among these are the Great Walks of the Abel Tasman Coastal Track, the Kepler Track, and the Milford Track. These three tracks, each with its own distinct personality, are set in spectacular landscapes found only in New Zealand. The utmost technical challenge is, however, the ten-day North-West Circuit of Stewart Island (which includes parts of the Rakiura Track, another Great Walk), a trek through temperate rainforests, all but impassable muddy tracks, and across extensive coastal sand dunes reminiscent of the south-eastern coast of Australia. Lee Traynor recounts the preparations and the two months spent in New Zealand travelling around these southern islands and his adventures on and off the track. Lavishly illustrated with over 175 colour photographs and maps, and 20 black and white photos and diagrams.

Book Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand

Download or read book Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand written by Jeff Evans and published by Oratia Media Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science and stories behind the remarkable Polynesian settlement of the South Pacific and finally New Zealand, with plentiful illustrations and maps

Book The Voyages of Captain James Cook

Download or read book The Voyages of Captain James Cook written by James Cook and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about Captain James Cook and his crew, beautifully illustrated, with excerpts from Cook's journals, illustrations, photography, and more.

Book Facing Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Fullagar
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2018-11-01
  • ISBN : 1421426560
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Facing Empire written by Kate Fullagar and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reid, Daniel K. Richter, Rebecca Shumway, Sujit Sivasundaram, Nicole Ulrich

Book The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery

Download or read book The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery written by J.C. Beaglehole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 975 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain James Cook’s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of Dr J.C. Beaglehole’s edition of Cook’s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Its objective was the discovery of ’a Northern Passage by sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean’ - the North-west Passage, sought since the 16th century, which would have transformed the pattern of world trade. The search was to take Cook into high latitudes where, as in the Antarctic, his skill in ice navigation was tested. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary. Dr Beaglehole discusses, with sympathy and insight, the tensions which led Cook, by then a tired man, into miscalculations alien to his own nature and habits. The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook’s second voyage. The surgeons William Anderson and David Samwell, both admirable observers, left journals which are also here printed in full for the first time. The documentation is completed, as in the previous volumes, by appendixes of documents and correspondence and by reproductions of original drawings and paintings mainly by John Webber, the artist of the expedition. In Dr Beaglehole’s words, ’no one can study attentively the records of Cook’s third, and last, v

Book Murihiku

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  • Author : Robert McNab
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Murihiku written by Robert McNab and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies written by Brendan Hokowhitu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include: • Indigenous Sovereignty • Indigeneity in the 21st Century • Indigenous Epistemologies • The Field of Indigenous Studies • Global Indigeneity This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material and ideational analyses of social, political, and cultural institutions and critiquing and considering how Indigenous peoples situate themselves within, outside, and in relation to dominant discourses, dominant postcolonial cultures and prevailing Western thought. This book will be of interest to scholars with an interest in Indigenous peoples across Literature, History, Sociology, Critical Geographies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Native Studies, Māori Studies, Hawaiian Studies, Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Race Studies, Queer Studies, Politics, Law, and Feminism.

Book Captain Cook

Download or read book Captain Cook written by Glyndwr Williams and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays reassess Cook's standing as a leading figure in eighteenth-century history, exploration and the advancement of science.

Book Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute written by New Zealand Institute and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings or notices of the member institutes of the society form part of the section "Proceedings" in each volume; lists of members are included in v. 1-41, 43-60, 64-

Book Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand written by Royal Society of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.

Book The Story of New Zealand

Download or read book The Story of New Zealand written by Arthur Saunders Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captain Cook s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H M  Bark  Endeavour   1768 71

Download or read book Captain Cook s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H M Bark Endeavour 1768 71 written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den engelske opdagelsesrejsende James Cooks (1728-1779) dagbog fra hans første rejse til Sydhavet

Book Transactions

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  • Author : Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1873
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 614 pages

Download or read book Transactions written by Royal Society of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of New Zealand  pt  2 continued

Download or read book The Story of New Zealand pt 2 continued written by Arthur Saunders Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of New Zealand  Past and Present

Download or read book The Story of New Zealand Past and Present written by Arthur Saunders THOMSON and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: