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Author | : Raija Nieminen |
Publisher | : Gallaudet University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780930323622 |
Reminiscences of the deaf librarian and mother of two who spent two years working with deaf children on the island of St. Lucia to help them better their lives.
Author | : Sir Hans Sloane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 922 |
Release | : 1707 |
Genre | : Botanical illustration |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Auguste Bernard Duhaut-Cilly |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520217522 |
"This is the definitive translation of the most important travel account of California before the American conquest. Duhaut-Cilly's observations are those of the outsider with the most insider access of any visitor. It is a lively read, endlessly fascinating for all those interested in the early history of the Golden State, and a natural supplement to all courses on its past."--James Sandos, author of "Rebellion in the Borderlands" "The best contemporary account of the California missions prior to their secularization. Excellent writing as well as sensitive translation and good editing by two leading scholars make this historical study both informative and a very good read."--Norman Thrower, author of "Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage" "Thanks to this superb new translation, we can again feel Duhaut-Cilly's wonder and realism as he encountered a remote Mexican province whose destiny was at once obscure and exhilarating."--Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California "A wonderful new English-language translation of Auguste Duhaut-Cilly's 1826 "Voyage to California" that gives us a very detailed set of observations on Indian-white relations in Alta and Baja California on the eve of the secularization of the missions."--Ramon A. Gutierrez, coeditor of "Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush"
Author | : LIZ. CLARK |
Publisher | : Patagonia |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781952338229 |
Author | : Claire Fayers |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-05-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250138949 |
In this sequel to The Voyage to Magical North, Brine, Peter, Cassie and crew return for another swashbuckling adventure on the high seas. Reaching the edge of the world can't stop the crew of the Onion! It's westward ho in search of dragons, no matter the obstacles. And there are obstacles. Flesh-eating vines, violent locals, and mischievous magi—not to mention Marfak West's ghost—meet the pirates when they land on the Western Island, where a volcano threatens to end them all. Together, Brine and Peter might just be able to save the crew, the island, and themselves. Or they might all go up in flames. It really could go either way.
Author | : Rosemary Wells |
Publisher | : Dial |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A collection of children's books on the subject of rabbits and bunnies.
Author | : Timothy Severin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Indonesia |
ISBN | : 9780349110400 |
The Spice Islands Voyage is about a journey and a quest: a journey among the Spice Islands of equatorial Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel; a quest to rediscover Alfred Russel Wallace, the brilliant and intrepid naturalist who jointly proposed, with Charles Darwin, the theory of natural selection, and whose travels founded the science of zoo geography. Navigating through sparkling coral seas to remote shorelines, Tim Severin and his crew retraced the explorer's journeys, encountering green turtles and flying foxes, observing the smuggling of rare birds and rainforest destruction, but also witnessing the emergence of a new sense of environmental awareness. 'Full of insights retraces a journey through places of fabulous natural and cultural diversity should inspire new readers to discover the remarkable writings of Wallace himself', Independent
Author | : Jules Verne |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1775419363 |
Although The Mysterious Island is technically a sequel to Vernes' enormously popular Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, this novel offers a vastly different take on similar thematic motifs. As with all of Verne's best-known works, The Mysterious Island is a masterpiece of the action-adventure genre, with a heaping dash of science fiction influence thrown in for good measure.
Author | : George Forster |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780824820916 |
George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompanying his father, the ship's naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, on the voyage, George proved a knowledgeable and adept observer. The lively, elegant prose and critical detail of his account, based loosely on his father's journal, make it one of the finest works of eighteenth-century travel literature and an account of prime importance in the history of European contact with Pacific peoples. The Forsters' publications reveal the sophistication and enthusiasm they brought to their observation of Polynesian peoples as well as a sensitivity to the moral ambiguities of contact. The two volumes of George Forster's work include substantially richer descriptions of encounters with island inhabitants than either his father's classic work (Observations Made during a Voyage round the World, UH Press, 1996) or Cook's official narrative, and its confident, even visionary, style incorporates a good deal of polemic, particularly in its criticism of the treatment of islanders by Cook's crew. In addition to the range and depth of its anthropological considerations, it provides a thrilling account of life aboard one of Cook's vessels. In its author's German translation, this work becomes a classic of natural history writing, but its original English version has long been neglected by anglophone scholars. This new scholarly edition makes this important book readily available for the first time since its initial publication more than two centuries ago. But it also presents the work in fresh terms, making it more accessible and relevant to a contemporary audience. The valuable introduction and annotations draw on the wide range of anthropological and ethnohistorical scholarship published since the 1960s and contextualize the book in relation to both the cultures of Oceania documented by the Forsters and the history of European voyaging in the Pacific. Appendixes include a translation of the introduction to the German edition and the polemical pamphlets by George Forster and the ship's astronomer William Wales, in which some of the book's more controversial claims were debated. A Voyage Round the World brings the disciplines of history and anthropology to bear on Cook's voyages in an illuminating and readable fashion. This edition will help complete the corpus of basic documents on Cook's voyages--a crucial resource for researchers in cultural, Pacific, and maritime history; archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians; and most recently for scholars engaged in revisionist interpretations of eighteenth-century exploration and colonization.
Author | : Basil Hall |
Publisher | : London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Korea |
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