Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Publisher: Melville International Crime
ISBN: 1612191177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This English translation previously published: London: Pluto Press, 1986; and, London: Serpent's Tail, 1999.
Southern Seas
Author: Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year. In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell’s wife to find out what happened. Carvalho, a jaded former communist, must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year. In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell’s wife to find out what happened. Carvalho, a jaded former communist, must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master.
Southern Seas
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Publisher: Melville International Crime
ISBN: 1612191177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This English translation previously published: London: Pluto Press, 1986; and, London: Serpent's Tail, 1999.
Publisher: Melville International Crime
ISBN: 1612191177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This English translation previously published: London: Pluto Press, 1986; and, London: Serpent's Tail, 1999.
Missionary Life in the Southern Seas
Author: James Hutton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368842285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368842285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Writing the South Seas
Author: Brian C. Bernards
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029580615X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029580615X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840
Author: Jonathan Lamb
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226468488
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. Preserving the Self in the South Seas also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226468488
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. Preserving the Self in the South Seas also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.
In the South Seas
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
White Savages in the South Seas
Author: Mel Kernahan
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859840047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859840047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
My First Voyage to Southern Seas
Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Islands of the Southern Seas
Author: Michael Myers Shoemaker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Pippi in the South Seas
Author: Astrid Lindgren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.