Kanaka ??iwi Methodologies (Hawai'inui?kea)
For many new indigenous scholars, the start of academic research can be an experience rife with conflict in many dimensions. Though there are a multitude of approaches to research and inquiry, many of those methods ignore ancient wisdom and traditions as well as alternative worldviews and avenues for both discovery and learning. The fourth volume in the Hawai'inui?kea series, guest coedited by Katrina-Ann R. Kap?'anaokal?okeola N?koa Oliveira and Erin Kahunawaika'ala Wright, explores techniques...
The historic voyage of the H.M.S. bounty culminates in Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh.
Esther only just escaped the hangman in London. She was aged 16 when she stood trial for stealing twenty-four yards of black silk lace, worth fifty shillings, from Harrops' Drapery. Her sentence was 'transportion to parts beyond the seas' for seven years. She embarked on the perilous journey around the globe on the First Fleet, and on the journey she took up with the dashing young First Lieutenant George Johnston. Usually such arrangements between convict women and army officers were temporary,...
A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways. Lincoln Paine takes us back to t...
Mariners of Madang and Austronesian Canoes of Astrolabe Bay, Papua New Guinea
by Mary R Mennis
Ranging from the Hawaiian Archipelago to the Aleutian Islands, from Silicon Valley to Guam, ""Pathways to the Present"" is a thoroughly researched and concisely argued account of economic and environmental change in the postwar ""American"" Pacific. Following a brief survey of the history of the Pacific, the author takes the Hawaiian Islands as the center of American activities in the region and looks at interactions among native Hawaiian, developmental, military, and environmental issues in the...
The Island of Stone Money, Uap of the Carolines
by William Henry 1866-1920 Furness
Over the last forty years, surfing has emerged from its Pacific islands origins to become a global industry. Since its beginnings more than a thousand years ago, surfing's icon has been the surf- board-its essential instrument, the point of physical connection between human and nature, body and wave. Based on research in three important surfing locations-Hawai'i, southern California, and southeastern Australia-this is the first book to trace the surf- board from regional craft tradition to its k...
Secrets of the World's Undiscovered Treasures (Mysteries and Secrets, #15)
by Lionel Fanthorpe and Patricia Fanthorpe
Treasures of many kinds still lie hidden below crumbling castles and ruined monasteries; in macabre tombs; in subterranean labyrinths and sinister caverns. Many sunken treasures lie beneath the seas, oceans and lakes of the world. Vast stores of pirate gold are still hidden on many a real life treasure island such as Oak Island at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Many treasures were looted, hidden and lost after the two World Wars - Hermann Goering, for example, one of most powerful leaders of Nazi Germ...
Kerr's Voyages Series 3 focuses on the great circumnavigations of the globe, and includes the lesser known circumnavigations of Sir Thomas Candish, Oliver van Noort, Jacques Le Maire, Jacques Le Hermite, Captain John Cooke and William Funnell amongst others, as well as the acclaimed voyages of Drake and Magellan. Many of the circumnavigations featured in this set had a scientific focus, seeking to both consolidate and extend geographical and scientific knowledge of the globe. The regions and cou...
"A Pattern of Islands" is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus. Beyond the hilarious and frightening adventure stories, "A Pattern of Islands" is also a true testament to the life of these Pacific islanders. Grimble collected stories from the last generation who co...