The Romance Of The South Seas

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Genre : New Caledonia
Author : Clement Lindley Wragge
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Release : 1906
File : 372 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822027060888


South Sea Foam The Romantic Adventures Of A Modern Don Quixote In The Southern Seas

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : A. Safroni- Middleton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release : 2023-09-20
File : 446 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783387071078


In The Strange South Seas

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This work is an incredible account of the author's adventures in The South Sea Islands. In the book, Grimshaw recounts her adventures, describes the customs and lifestyles of the inhabitants, and gives a detailed picture of the region's fauna and wildlife. The book also contains reports of cannibalism, head-hunting, poisoning, and tribal magic. Starting from San Francisco, she sailed first to Tahiti, followed by a four-month voyage through the South Pacific and extra two months on the island of Niue. During this trip, she visited Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Rarotonga, and some parts of the Cook Islands. Soon after returning to London, she published "In the Strange South Seas." For the longest time, Grimshaw desired to travel the world, especially the mainly unexplored Pacific Ocean. In 1903 she was approached by the Daily Graphic to report on the Pacific. She was commissioned to write travelogues for shipping companies to promote the South Sea Islands. Beatrice Grimshaw illustrated this work with her own photographs and vivid descriptions of this fascinating region. The incredible imagery takes the readers who have never traveled to these places on a beautiful journey.

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Genre : Travel
Author : Beatrice Grimshaw
Publisher : DigiCat
Release : 2022-06-02
File : 340 Pages
ISBN-13 : EAN:8596547039747


The South Seas

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The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of particular productions, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon explore the ways in which authors’ and producers’ ideas about the South Seas were “haunted” by others who had written on the subject, and how they in turn influenced future generations of knowledge producers. The South Seas is unique in its examination of an array of cultural texts. Along with the foundational literary texts that established and perpetuated the South Seas tradition in written form, the authorsexplore diverse cultural forms such as art, music, theater, film, fairs, platform speakers, surfing culture, and tourism.

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Genre : History
Author : Sean Brawley
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release : 2015-04-21
File : 321 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780739193365


Australian Travellers In The South Seas

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This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.

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Genre : History
Author : Nicholas Halter
Publisher : ANU Press
Release : 2021-02-08
File : 396 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781760464158


The South Sea Island

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When the first European explorers ventured into the unknown Pacific Ocean, their minds were filled with tales of remote, paradisiacal islands. Hopeful ideas of noble savages, ecological balance, and immense riches gave them the courage to search for a new world – even when faced with the unimaginable. The South Sea Island – A Geography of Pleasure is a journey through the history of ideas and literature over three centuries of European and American narratives about islands, oceans, and archipelagos. Literary scholar Frits Andersen reads and analyses travel accounts, paintings, films, and novels from the 18th century up until the present day by visual artists and authors including Paul Gauguin, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, and Thor Heyerdahl. These readings, combined with Andersen’s eye for pleasure, sense, and longing, give rise to a novel literary history of the disappearing Pacific islands. At the same time, the book offers historical models that we can use today to enhance our understanding of, and find new answers to, global political and climate-related challenges. Frits Andersen is a professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. His previous works include The Dark Continent? Images of Africa in European Narratives about the Congo (2016). The Danish edition of this book, entitled Sydhavsøen. Nydelsens geografi received the Georg Brandes Prize.

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Genre : History
Author : Frits Andersen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release : 2024-02-07
File : 398 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788775974467


South Sea Foam

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Genre : Folklore
Author : Arnold Safroni-Middleton
Publisher : London, Methuen; New York, Doran [1919]
Release : 1919
File : 308 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:$B304833


Strangers In The South Seas

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Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth-such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences after Darwin's momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced other challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, a process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers--some famous, some obscure. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.

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Genre : Travel
Author : Richard Lansdown
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Release : 2006-01-01
File : 450 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780824829025


A South Sea Lover

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Genre : Love stories
Author : Alfred St. Johnston
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Release : 1890
File : 338 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:TZ1L9A


Mutiny And Romance In The South Seas

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A month-by-month account of the story of the famous ship Bounty, plus background on the mutiny and the people involved.

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Genre : History
Author : Sven Wahlroos
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Release : 1989
File : 522 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106018605888