Wild Life Among the Pacific Islanders
Author : E. H. Lamont
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Oceania
ISBN :
Author : E. H. Lamont
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Oceania
ISBN :
Author : Mary Alice Monroe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534427279
Spending the summer with his grandmother on South Carolina's Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends who are also struggling with family issues and together they try to save a sea turtle nest from predators.
Author : Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1108477658
A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.
Author : William T. Wawn
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Alien Labour --australia --queensland
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781169470
Discover the islands of the Dream Archipelago—where reality is both illusory and magical—in this “masterful . . . endlessly compelling” literary sci-fi novel for fans of Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell (Locus). The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to. Their very locations seem to twist and shift. Some islands have been sculpted into vast musical instruments, others are home to lethal creatures, others the playground for high society. Hot winds blow across the archipelago and a war fought between two distant continents is played out across its waters. Styled as an untrustworthy but enticing travel guide to the archipelago, The Islanders is a tale of murder, artistic rivalry, and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game, just as its unreliable narrator does the same . . . “ . . . easily one of the richest and most rewarding novels that Priest has written to date.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author : John Dunlop
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2019-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780469447868
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Author : Anton Daughters
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816540004
The more than two dozen islands that make up southern Chile’s Chiloé Archipelago present a unique case of culture change and rapid industrialization in the twentieth century. Since the arrival of the first European settlers in the late 1500s, Chiloé was given scant attention by colonial and national governments on mainland Chile. Islanders developed a way of life heavily dependent on marine resources, native crops like the potato, and the cooperative labor practice known as the minga. Starting in the 1980s, Chiloé emerged as a key player in the global seafood market as major companies moved into the region to extract wild stocks of fish and to grow salmon and shellfish for export. The region’s economy shifted abruptly from one of subsistence farming and fishing to wage labor in export industries. Local knowledge, traditions, memories, and identities similarly shifted, with younger islanders expressing a more critical view of the rural past than their elders. This book recounts the unique history of this region, emphasizing the generational tensions, disconnects, and continuities of the last half century. Drawing on interviews, field observations, and historical documents, Anton Daughters brings to life one of the most culturally distinct regions of South America.
Author : Peter Bellwood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1119251567
Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to migration in the period dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development of Indic kingdoms late in the first millennium CE.
Author : Jeremy Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521378628
Reactions of the Torres Strait Islanders, Australia's "other" indigenous minority, to colonialism and their position in Australian society, are compared with the Aborigine experience.
Author : Armando Curbelo Fuentes
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1595348468
Immigrants from the archipelago of the Spanish Canary Islands off the coast of Western Africa played a vital role in San Antonio’s early history. Canary Islanders in Texas tells the story of the fifty-five Canary Islanders who arrived in South Texas in 1731 and founded the original municipality of San Fernando de Béxar (renamed San Antonio in the nineteenth century after Texas’s independence from Mexico). Through the reflections and records of María Curbelo, the last surviving member of the original settlers, readers learn of the many challenges these early settlers faced, including the assignment of land grants, distribution of riverine water, and protesting perceived monopolies of labor for the construction of homes and other structures by Franciscan missionaries. For over a century Canary Islanders and their descendants controlled municipal policy in San Antonio, Their influence began to decline beginning in 1845, however, with the annexation of Texas and the introduction of United States governance. More than five thousand isleños live in San Antonio today, many of them descendants of the original settlers. Their influence can be seen in the city’s history, culture, music, and philanthropy. Their legacy is celebrated through numerous cultural groups and organizations.