Looking for Darwin

Looking for Darwin
Author: Lloyd Spencer Davis
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1775530795

An award-winning zoologist travels in Charles Darwin's footsteps, and in search of the meaning of life. In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, zoologist Lloyd Spencer Davis comes face to face with an enraged leopard seal. Towering ice cliffs, a ferocious creature of the deep, and the extreme Antarctic environment all turn Davis's world view on its head. 'What the hell am I doing here?' This question sets Davis on a quest for insight and meaning in a world that still pitches theories of evolution against belief in a Creator; the science of natural selection against a faith that asserts our world was crafted by Intelligent Design. With a self-deprecating grin packed along with his cabin baggage - even when his passport isn't - Davis decides to follow the travels of the eminent nineteenth-century naturalist, Charles Darwin: the man who did more to change our understanding of this planet than any other biologist. Looking for Darwin gives us a personal and intimate insight into Darwin and what drove the man. It is also an attempt to resolve that initially panicked — and then far-reaching — question, that first hit Davis on the big ice. With a wealth of research and vivid imagery — along with a disarming honesty —Lloyd Spencer Davis takes the reader on an unforgettable world tour.

Augustus Earle

Augustus Earle
Author:
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1980
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0859676315

Augustus Earle (1793–1838) was born to travel and to paint. Living in the era before photography, Earle was one of the world’s most irrepressible travel artists. His paintings are valuable both as works of art and as documentary records of historic and ethnographic significance. This publication gives an overview of some of Earle’s most significant works held by the National Library of Australia.

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
Author: Augustus Earle
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781697350913

Augustus Earle (1793-1838) was a professional watercolour artist specialising in colonial themes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of thirteen and in 1815 travelled to the Mediterranean.

Augustus Earle in New Zealand

Augustus Earle in New Zealand
Author: Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray Murray-Oliver
Publisher: [Christchurch] : Whitcombe & Tombs
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1968
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780391019485

Outcasts of the Gods?

Outcasts of the Gods?
Author: Hazel Petrie
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 177558786X

‘Us Maoris used to practice slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. ‘Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending slavery and cannibalism while increasing the life expectancy,' wrote one sarcastic blogger. So was Maori slavery ‘just like' the experience of Africans in the Americas and were British missionaries or colonial administrators responsible for ending the practice? What was the nature of freedom and unfreedom in Maori society and how did that intersect with the perceptions of British colonists and the anti-slavery movement? A meticulously researched book, Outcasts of the Gods? looks closely at a huge variety of evidence to answer these questions, analyzing bondage and freedom in traditional Maori society; the role of economics and mana in shaping captivity; and how the arrival of colonists and new trade opportunities transformed Maori society and the place of captives within it.

Worlding the South

Worlding the South
Author: Manchester University Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781526152886

Prioritising south-south networks and relations, this collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands. It argues for the importance of a new literary history of the southern colonies that accounts for Indigenous, diasporic, and southern perspectives.

The Years Before Waitangi

The Years Before Waitangi
Author: Patricia Bawden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1987
Genre: Europeans
ISBN:

"In The years before Waitangi the author brings together material from letters, journals and books written by early European visitors to these shores, detailed accounts of what those people saw and experienced, to give the reader a glimpse of the culture and life-style of Maori and Europeans in New Zealand prior to the Treaty of Waitangi." --Back cover.

Now See Hear!

Now See Hear!
Author: Ian Wedde
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780864730961

Now See Hear! has been assembled around the central rubric of translation, and essays address translations between art, language, advertising, television, graphic design, comics, video, film, history, art-history, signs and symbols, landscape and architecture, within the context of the current conditions of the market place.