Under a Tropical Sky

Under a Tropical Sky
Author: John Amphlett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 338282048X

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Under a Tropical Sky; a Journal of First Impressions of the West Indies

Under a Tropical Sky; a Journal of First Impressions of the West Indies
Author: John Amphlett
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781290081214

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Under a Tropical Sky

Under a Tropical Sky
Author: John Amphlett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2015-07-21
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781331935322

Excerpt from Under a Tropical Sky: A Journal of First Impressions of the West Indies On Tuesday, the 17th of December 1872, the Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian, after goodbyes had been said, and all the mail-bags had been put on board, was ignominiously pulled round by the little steam-tug tender, and steamed off down Southampton Water, right into a dark bank of leaden clouds, behind which the sun had now sunk. It was the fifty-ninth time that her bows had pointed across the wide Atlantic towards the West Indies. It was my first voyage in an ocean-going steamer, and consequently all was new to me on board. As the tender steamed back to Southampton, handkerchiefs were waved, until at last the increasing distance prevented even those white flags of friendship from being seen, and we had indeed said goodbye to old England, and all that it contained near and dear to us. The first thing to be done is to describe the ship and the mode of life of those on board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Five Emus to the King of Siam

Five Emus to the King of Siam
Author: Helen Tiffin
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9042022434

Western exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as 'human', 'savage', 'civilised', 'natural', 'progressive', and on the legitimacies governing apprehension and control of space and landscape. Environmental impacts were reinforced, in patterns of unequal 'exchange', by the transport of animals, plants and peoples throughout the European empires, instigating widespread ecosystem change under unequal power regimes (a harbinger of today's 'globalization'). This book considers these imperial 'exchanges' and charts some contemporary legacies of those inequitable imports and exports, transportations and transmutations. Sheep farming in Australia, transforming the land as it dispossessed the native inhabitants, became a symbol of (new, white) nationhood. The transportation of plants (and animals) into and across the Pacific, even where benign or nostalgic, had widespread environmental effects, despite the hopes of the acclimatisation societies involved, and, by extension, of missionary societies "planting the seeds of Christianity." In the Caribbean, plantation slavery pushed back the "jungle" (itself an imported word) and erased the indigenous occupants - one example of the righteous, biblically justified cultivation of the wilderness. In Australia, artistic depictions of landscape, often driven by romantic and 'gothic' aesthetics, encoded contradictory settler mindsets, and literary representations of colonial Kenya mask the erasure of ecosystems. Chapters on the early twentieth century (in Canada, Kenya, and Queensland) indicate increased awareness of the value of species-preservation, conservation, and disease control. The tension between traditional and 'Euroscientific' attitudes towards conservation is revealed in attitudes towards control of the Ganges, while the urge to resource exploitation has produced critical disequilibrium in Papua New Guinea. Broader concerns centering on ecotourism and ecocriticism are treated in further essays summarising how the dominant West has alienated 'nature' from human beings through commodification in the service of capitalist 'progress'.