People of the Sea
Author | : W. Michael Gear |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 1994-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812507452 |
The story of life and love, death and adventure in North America eleven thousand years ago.
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Author | : W. Michael Gear |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 1994-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812507452 |
The story of life and love, death and adventure in North America eleven thousand years ago.
Author | : Christina Thompson |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062060899 |
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.
Author | : James Wharram |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781907206580 |
Author | : Paul D'Arcy |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824829599 |
Countering the dominant paradigms of recent Pacific Islands' historiography, which tend to limit understanding of the sea's importance, this volume emphasizes the flux in the maritime environment and how it instilled an expectation and openness toward outside influences and the rapidity with which cultural change could occur in relations between various Islander groups." "Students and scholars of Pacific history and environmental and cultural studies will welcome this re-evaluation of the sea's influence in Oceanic history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Rita Astuti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1995-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521433509 |
The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity, showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship also uncovers an opposite form of identity based on descent, which she argues is the identity of the dead. By looking at key mortuary rituals that engage the relationship between the living and the dead, Dr Astuti develops a dual model of the Vezo person: the one defined contextually in the present, the other determined by the past.
Author | : David Thomson |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1841951072 |
David Thomson visited the remote sea coasts of the Scottish Isles and the West of Ireland on journeys in search of the legends of the selchies - mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans. A magical world emerged, in which men are rescued by seals in stormy seas, take seal-women for their wives and have their children suckled by seal-mothers. Mysterious and fascinating, these stories retain their spellbinding charm through Thomson's beautiful prose. The People of the Sea is a timeless and haunting book, rich in rewards and surprises.
Author | : Richard Stephen Felger |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0816534756 |
"People of the Desert and Sea is one of those books that should not have to wait a generation or two to be considered a classic. A feast for the eye as well as the mind, this ethnobotany of the Seri Indians of Sonora represents the most detailed exploration of plant use by a hunting-and-gathering people to date. . . . Scholarship in the best sense of the term—precise without being pedantic, exhaustive without exhausting its readers."—Journal of Arizona History "To read and gaze through this elegantly illustrated book is to be exposed, as if through a work of science fiction, to an astonishing and unknown cultural world."—North Dakota Quarterly
Author | : Nancy Knowlton |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1426206437 |
In this refreshing, reader-friendly, and colorfully illustrated book about the ocean, renowned marine scientist Knowlton presents an overview of the hundreds of species that have been discovered in the past decade.
Author | : S. M. Stirling |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 039958319X |
S. M. Stirling’s Novels of the Change are a “truly original combination of postapocalyptic sci-fi and military-oriented medieval fantasy”* about a future where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology, and humanity rebuilds society. However, this new world is not always a peaceful one.... The spirit of troubadour Prince John, the brother of Crown Princess Órlaith, has fallen captive to the power of the Yellow Raja and his servant, the Pallid Mask. Prince John’s motley band of friends and followers—headed by Captain Pip of Townsville and Deor Godulfson—must lead a quest through realms of shadow and dreams to rescue Prince John from a threat far worse than death. Meanwhile, across the sea, Japanese Empress Reiko and Órlaith, heir to the High Kingdom of Montival, muster their kingdoms for war, making common cause with the reborn Kingdom of Hawaii. But more than weapons or even the dark magic of the sorcerers of Pyongyang threaten them; Órlaith's lover, Alan Thurston, might be more than he appears. From the tropical waters off Hilo and Pearl Harbor, to the jungles and lost cities of the Ceram Sea, a game will be played where the fate of the world is at stake. *Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Donald Uluadluak |
Publisher | : Inhabit Media |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781772271386 |
When Donald and his friends are playing in the water, they encounter a mermaid, one of the creatures his Elders have told him about.