Author: James Herman De Ricci
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Fiji: Our New Province in the South Seas
Author: James Herman De Ricci
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Fiji: Our New Province in the South Seas
Author: James Herman De Ricci
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Fiji: Our New Province in the South Seas ... With Two Maps
Author: James Herman DE RICCI
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Fiji: Our New Province in the South Seas
Author: J. H. De Ricci
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382826844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. 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.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382826844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. 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.
Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911
Author: Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia)
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Strangers in the South Seas
Author: Richard Lansdown
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824829026
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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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.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824829026
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
Catalogue of the York Gate Library Formed by Mr. S. William Silver
Author: Edward Augustus Petherick
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Fiji; Our New Province in the South Seas
Author: J. H. De Ricci
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330425701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Excerpt from Fiji; Our New Province in the South Seas In the following pages I have essayed to put together in a succinct and practicable form all such information concerning our new Colony as I have thought likely to prove of interest or importance. Much of this information has hitherto existed under conditions rendering it difficult of access, not only from the fact of its being scattered piecemeal throughout various Parliamentary Returns, Official Reports, and other publications, but also owing to the comparative difficulty of sometimes identifying the subject by the title of that publication in which it is contained. Commodore Wilkes' exhaustive description of the natives, and their manners and customs, contained in the narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, would be difficult to improve upon, and to that author and Dr. Berthold Seemann I am especially indebted. 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.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330425701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Excerpt from Fiji; Our New Province in the South Seas In the following pages I have essayed to put together in a succinct and practicable form all such information concerning our new Colony as I have thought likely to prove of interest or importance. Much of this information has hitherto existed under conditions rendering it difficult of access, not only from the fact of its being scattered piecemeal throughout various Parliamentary Returns, Official Reports, and other publications, but also owing to the comparative difficulty of sometimes identifying the subject by the title of that publication in which it is contained. Commodore Wilkes' exhaustive description of the natives, and their manners and customs, contained in the narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, would be difficult to improve upon, and to that author and Dr. Berthold Seemann I am especially indebted. 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.
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, Reference Department
Author: Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W.). Reference Department
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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The Best Books
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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