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Description: Pearls of the South Seas: The Solomon Islands.
Author : R C Laycock
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2019
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Description: Pearls of the South Seas: The Solomon Islands.
Author : R. C. Laycock
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 194?
Category : Solomon Islands
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Author : R. C. Laycock
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 194?
Category : Solomon Islands
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Author : S. Brawley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1137090677
This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history.
Author : Robert W. Williamson
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2012-01
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9781290435086
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Victor Arnold Barradale
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Missionaries
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Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300105681
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of George Anson in the 1740s, a series of predatory English adventurers pursued Spanish treasure, and for a few the dream of riches came true. For most, the voyages ended in disappointment, and sometimes death. This engrossing book investigates these maritime adventures and how they were described in popular accounts of the time--accounts that affected English consciousness and perceptions of the wider world and that influenced the planning and nature of the later great voyages of James Cook and others. Glyndwr Williams, a leading expert on the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, draws on printed accounts of South Sea voyages as well as unpublished records--buccaneer journals, expedition papers, and government documents from public and private archives. For English seamen preying on Spanish trade and treasure, the South Sea was limited to the waters lapping the shores of Chile, Peru, and Mexico. But the vision was wider for others, Williams reveals. Cartographers at home in England, untrammeled by the constraints and dangers of actual voyaging, produced speculative maps with a vast Terra Australis Incognita, with fabulous Islands of Solomon, and with a promised short passage from Atlantic to Pacific. Satirical and utopian writers from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift found ample space in the wide ocean for their fictional travelers. And contemporary published voyage accounts--marvelous, though not necessarily reliable--further blurred the line between real and imaginary, contributing to the alluring, exotic image of the South Sea that took root in English folk memory and long outlasted the age of the buccaneers.
Author : San Francisco (Calif.) Memorial Museum
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Art
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Author : Martin Johnson
Publisher : anboco
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3736411014
Accounts of dare-devil exploits have always been read with deep interest. One of the salient features of human nature is curiosity, a desire to know what is being said and done outside the narrow limits of one's individual experience, or, in other words, to learn the modes of life of persons whose environment and problems are different from one's own environment and problems. To this natural curiosity, the book of travel is particularly gratifying. But when we add to the fact that such a narrative treats of races and conditions almost unknown to the inhabitants of civilised countries the consideration that those voyageurs to whom the adventures fell are men and women already prominently before the public, and so deserving of that public's special confidence, the interest and value of such a work will be seen to be extraordinarily enhanced. The cruise of Jack London's forty-five-foot ketch Snark was followed eagerly by the press of several continents. The Snark alone was enough to compel attention, but the Snark sailed by Jack London, a writer of world-wide celebrity, was irresistible. The venture caught the world's fancy. Periodicals devoted columns to a discussion of the Snark and her builder, and to the daring crew who sailed the tiny craft for two years through the South Seas. When it became known that such a voyage was in contemplation, hundreds of persons wrote to Mr. London, begging that he allow them to accompany him. On the other extreme, they were legion who threw up their hands in horror at the mere suggestion....
Author : Martin Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Australasia
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