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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Release : 1896
Genre : Polynesia
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Book Synopsis In the South Seas by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book In the South Seas written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This book was released on 1896. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mel Kernahan
Release : 1995-10
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis White Savages in the South Seas by : Mel Kernahan
Download or read book White Savages in the South Seas written by Mel Kernahan. This book was released on 1995-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Release : 1986
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis R.L.S. in the South Seas by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book R.L.S. in the South Seas written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Lamb
Release : 2001-06-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 496/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840 by : Jonathan Lamb
Download or read book Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840 written by Jonathan Lamb. This book was released on 2001-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Brian C. Bernards
Release : 2016-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Writing the South Seas by : Brian C. Bernards
Download or read book Writing the South Seas written by Brian C. Bernards. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
