Selkirk was a pirate and a buccaneer who sailed on the South Seas on looting expeditions for gold and treasure. In 1703 he joined an expedition whose object was to plunder French and Spanish ships. Conditions on the ship were appalling; scurvy, dysentery and typhus flourished and most of the crew died or went mad. Eventually they reached the island of Juan Fernandez 400 miles off the coast of Chile where Selkirk opted to maroon himself. Suddenly solitude and silence were imposed and his only...
L'Histoire de la Nouvelle-Caledonie En 101 Dates
by Alexandre Juster
War and Succession in Mangala is a political history of an islands, in the southern Cook islands, from its social foundations until the advent of Christianity. In the 1820s as described by the nineteenth-century tribal historian Mamae. Mamae's original manuscripts are reproduced, along with translations, and a commentary discussing events surrounding chiefly battles for supreme power.
The New Zealand Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the Family Turridae, With General Notes on Turrid Nomenclature and Systematics
Across Melanesia, as across much of the world, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by modernizing processes of change-globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, this book argues, both in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and in the sense that "landowner" and...
The Easter Island Enigma (Mysteries of the Ancient World S.)
by Paul G. Bahn
Ancient Micronesia and the Lost City of Nan Madol (Lost Cities S.)
by David Hatcher Childress
Where Meadows Meet the Sea a Collection of Sea Songs and Pastoral Lays
by Harrison S Morris
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles (The United States in the World)
by Nancy Shoemaker
Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century...
"Voyages to the South Seas" is an epic narrative encompassing a remarkable period of French and Australian history - when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens. Tracing the often tragic voyages of Bougainville, Laperouse, D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet, d'Urville and others to Australia from 1768-1828, "Voyages to the South Seas" documents the changing society that launched these ambitious endeavours and the scientific discoveries they brought back. Australia may have be...
Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers
by Geomorphologist Andrew Warren and Chris Gibson
Islands of the Dawn: the Story of Alternative Spirituality in New Zealand
by R. Ellwood
UFO cults, the Order of the Golden Dawn, Spiritualism, and Theosophy are among the cults of the 19th and 20th centuries described by Ellwood (religion, U. of Southern California). He also delves into why such alternative religions tend to flourish in places settled by the British. An appendix discus
History of Micronesia v. 19; Freycinet Expedition, 1818-1819
This final volume in the series contains: an annotated bibliography of printed works about Micronesia arranged in chronological order; a list of ships that visited the islands from Magellan's time to the modern era; and a cumulative index of volumes 1-19.