In the South Seas
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Polynesia
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Polynesia
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Author : Mel Kernahan
Publisher : Verso
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1995-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781859849781
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Author : Edward C. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Whaling
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Author : Louis Becke
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Natural history
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Author : Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612191185
Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year. In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell’s wife to find out what happened. Carvalho, a jaded former communist, must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master.
Author : Brian C. Bernards
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 029580615X
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2019
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Harry Howatt ([pseud.].)
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Medical climatology
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Author : Jonathan Lamb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226468496
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.