Strangers in the South Seas

Strangers in the South Seas
Author: Richard Lansdown
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0824829026

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.

In the Strange South Seas

In the Strange South Seas
Author: Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2015-06-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781330187609

Excerpt from In the Strange South Seas In desire of many marvels over sea, When the new made tropic city sweats and roars, I have sailed with young Ulysses from the quay, Till the anchor rattled down on stranger shores. Kipling. Most men have their loves, happy or hopeless, among the countries of the earth. There are words in the atlas that ring like trumpet calls to the ear of many a stay-at-home in grey northern cities - names of mountains, rivers, islands, that tramp across the map to the sound of swinging music played by their own gay syllables, that summon, and lure, and sadden the man who listens to their fifing, as the music of marching regiments grips at the heart of the girl who loves a soldier. They call, they call, they call - through the long March mornings, when the road that leads to everywhere is growing white and dry - through restless summer nights, when one sits awake at the window to see the stars turn grey with the dawn - in the warm midday, when one hurries across the city bridge to a crowded eating-house, and the glittering masts far away down the river must never be looked at as one passes. Of a misty autumn evening, when steamers creeping up to seaport towns send long cries across the water, one here, and another there, will stir uneasily in his chair by the fire, and shut his ears against the insistent call... Why should he listen, he who may never answer? 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.

In the Strange South Seas (Classic Reprint)

In the Strange South Seas (Classic Reprint)
Author: Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2018-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780332938479

Excerpt from In the Strange South Seas New Woman in Niué - Devil-fish and water-snakes - An Island of Ghosts - How the witch-doctor died - The Life of a Trader u f. 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.

In the Strange South Seas

In the Strange South Seas
Author: Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781357701338

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In the South Seas

In the South Seas
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1504064178

The author of Treasure Island shares true stories of his travels in the Pacific in these portraits of nineteenth-century Tahiti, New Zealand, and beyond. Setting sail from San Francisco in June 1888, the author of Kidnapped and other classic adventure fiction embarked on a journey of his own. Having endured periods of illness and isolation in his earlier years, Robert Louis Stevenson was determined to see the far corners of the world. His extensive travels took him to the Hawaiian Islands, the Gilbert Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Samoa, where he would eventually settle. This collection of Stevenson’s writings recounts these wondrous years of nineteenth-century South Seas exploration.