The Spell of the Pacific
Author : Carl Stroven
Publisher :
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Hawaii
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Author : Carl Stroven
Publisher :
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Hawaii
ISBN :
Author : Carl Stroven
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
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Category : Islands of the Pacific
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Author : Carl Stroven (1901-Ed)
Publisher :
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Hawaii
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Author : Hua Hsu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 067496926X
Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward “barbarous” China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese relations. Hua Hsu tells the story of how they became ensnared in bitter rivalries over which one could claim the title of America’s leading China expert. The rapturous reception that greeted The Good Earth—Pearl Buck’s novel about a Chinese peasant family—spawned a literary market for sympathetic writings about China. Stories of enterprising Americans making their way in a land with “four hundred million customers,” as Carl Crow said, found an eager audience as well. But on the margins—in Chinatowns, on Ellis Island, and inside FBI surveillance memos—a different conversation about the possibilities of a shared future was taking place. A Floating Chinaman takes its title from a lost manuscript by H. T. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels during this time. Tsiang discovered the American literary market to be far less accommodating to his more skeptical view of U.S.-China relations. His “floating Chinaman,” unmoored and in-between, imagines a critical vantage point from which to understand the new ideas of China circulating between the world wars—and today, as well.
Author : Isabel Anderson
Publisher : Boston : L.C. Page
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Hawaii
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Author : Isabel Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1916
Category :
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Author : Charles Elliot Fox
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Dalton
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1926936310
On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west coast of Vancouver Island. As the wreck was shattered by the pounding waves, the survivors clung desperately to the rigging. Few made it the short distance to shore through the frigid and turbulent waves—117 of the 164 souls aboard perished. A year earlier, the King David had been wrecked on Bajo Reef near Nootka Sound. The fate of her sailors was much more mysterious. Today, the magnificent Pacific coastline of Vancouver Island draws hikers, surfers and storm-watchers to marvel at its natural splendour. But the ghosts of the Valencia, King David, Janet Cowan, Pacific, Soquel and dozens of other lost ships still haunt the rugged shores of the Graveyard of the Pacific. Anthony Dalton tells the incredible stories of many of these ships and their courageous crews, who often discovered that their nightmares had only begun once they made it ashore. These true tales of disaster and daring rescues are a fascinating adventure into British Columbia maritime history.
Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136451641
This classic text examines the extensive and complex trading system maintained by the Trobriand islanders. While the main theme is economics and social organization, the power of magic, mythology and folklore are also examined.
Author : Evelyn Colbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429975678
This accessible volume provides a brief introduction to the institutions, policy concerns, and international roles of the Pacific islands. Evelyn Colbert expertly paints an overall picture of the region using broad brush strokes, complementing the mostly specialized literature available about the South Pacific.