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This volume 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.
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The tables are turned in this account of Samoa in the 1890's, which presents Stevenson not as author but as subject, and describes the many challenges of daily life in the islands from an amusing point of view that is much less romantic than Stephenson's own. Fraser struggles wit ...
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This is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land has been scarred by tourism, the American military and urbanization. Grounded in the ancient grandeur and beauty of Hawaii, this collection is a love song for a beloved homeland under assault.
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These letters by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, an influential promoter of emigration to New Zealand, were first published in 1868.
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Spanning nearly 400 years of Australian history beginning with 1629 when the ship Batavia ran aground off the coast of Western Australia to the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.
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David Fausett is a New Zealand scholar who has been doing postgraduate and postdoctoral work in the USA and Europe since 1983. This is the third part of a three part study of the "intellectual history of travel fiction". How did Europeans view this unknown region before the explo ...
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Urbanesia is a collection of four outstanding scripts by contemporary Pasifika playwrights, each examining the tension between Western and Pacific Island culture and values and how that tension is being played out in Aotearoa.
A Frigate Bird Sings by Oscar Kightley, David Fane ...
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Originally written as a series of sketches for an American magazine, this is Stevenson's record of the first year he and his family spent travelling around the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbers.
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Swimming with Sharks is roving reporter Michael Field's absorbing account of first-hand experiences within the historic of the South Pacific area. Rich with anecdotes from 30 years of living and working in the region, this timely book is at once an investigation of the Pacific's ...
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9780143203735 |
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2 August 2010 by Penguin |
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All ages |
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