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South Sea Islands

2003 Natural history
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Release : 2003
Genre : Natural history
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Book Synopsis South Sea Islands by : Alison Ballance

Download or read book South Sea Islands written by Alison Ballance. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and ecosystems of 14 South Sea Islands: Easter Island, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Madagascar, French Polynesia, Galapagos, Komodo, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Tasmania, Lord Howe, Phillip, and New Caledonia.

Brown Men and Women

1898 Oceania
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Release : 1898
Genre : Oceania
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Book Synopsis Brown Men and Women by : Edward Reeves

Download or read book Brown Men and Women written by Edward Reeves. This book was released on 1898. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My South Sea Island

1936 Miniature books
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Release : 1936
Genre : Miniature books
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Book Synopsis My South Sea Island by : William Somerset Maugham

Download or read book My South Sea Island written by William Somerset Maugham. This book was released on 1936. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

South Sea Island

2022-04-28
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Release : 2022-04-28
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Book Synopsis South Sea Island by : Frits Andersen

Download or read book South Sea Island written by Frits Andersen. This book was released on 2022-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Sea Island. The Geography of Pleasure is a literary history of European, Russian and American travelogues, films, paintings, philosophical treatises, all fascinated by the Polynesian islands. Our ideas of nature, growth and sustainability are currently being challenged by climate change and sea level rise, with major identity and security policy implications that are particularly evident in the Pacific, but will also have consequences for the entire planet. The book is a contribution to a new global literary history and provides a historical in-depth perspective for highly topical discussions in interdisciplinary areas such as Pacific Studies, Island Studies, Ocean Studies and Planetary Studies. The Danish version of the book was nominated for 'Book of the year' in one of Denmark's most prominent newspaper and in another described as "epoch-making literary history" and shortlisted among the 5 non-fiction books in 2018, "which has made a difference". In addition, it was awarded the prestigious 'Georg Brande's Award' because it is "pioneering" and as the committee wrote: "Sydhavsøen [South Sea Island] is a book that conveys fascinating knowledge and theory in an exemplary way".

The South Sea Island

2024-02-07 History
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Release : 2024-02-07
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The South Sea Island by : Frits Andersen

Download or read book The South Sea Island written by Frits Andersen. This book was released on 2024-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first European explorers ventured into the unknown Pacific Ocean, their minds were filled with tales of remote, paradisiacal islands. Hopeful ideas of noble savages, ecological balance, and immense riches gave them the courage to search for a new world – even when faced with the unimaginable. The South Sea Island – A Geography of Pleasure is a journey through the history of ideas and literature over three centuries of European and American narratives about islands, oceans, and archipelagos. Literary scholar Frits Andersen reads and analyses travel accounts, paintings, films, and novels from the 18th century up until the present day by visual artists and authors including Paul Gauguin, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, and Thor Heyerdahl. These readings, combined with Andersen’s eye for pleasure, sense, and longing, give rise to a novel literary history of the disappearing Pacific islands. At the same time, the book offers historical models that we can use today to enhance our understanding of, and find new answers to, global political and climate-related challenges. Frits Andersen is a professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. His previous works include The Dark Continent? Images of Africa in European Narratives about the Congo (2016). The Danish edition of this book, entitled Sydhavsøen. Nydelsens geografi received the Georg Brandes Prize.

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