Across Species and Cultures

Across Species and Cultures

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Total Pages: 336

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific.

Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500–1900

Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500–1900

Publisher: Routledge

Total Pages: 689

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious cultural exchanges around the Pacific in the period 1500-1900, relating these to economic and political developments and to the expansion of communication across the ...

The Open Boat

The Open Boat

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Total Pages: 204

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

Food Culture in the Pacific Islands

Food Culture in the Pacific Islands

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Total Pages: 281

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

The food culture of the Pacific Islands has been determined by isolation from the rest of the world.

Lonely Planet South Pacific

Lonely Planet South Pacific

Publisher: Lonely Planet

Total Pages:

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *Best-selling guide to South Pacific. Source: Nielsen BookScan. Australia, UK and USA Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Sailing the Pacific

Sailing the Pacific

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Total Pages: 261

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

Here is prose so hawser-taut that it takes you back to Conrad, Melville, and Poe, indeed all those writers whose works about the bounding main have launched countless imaginations.

South Pacific

South Pacific

Publisher:

Total Pages: 0

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

The South Pacific isn't just a homogenous spread of palm trees and warm ocean escape your resort and you'll find cultures and experiences as rich as coconut cream. Celeste Brash, Lonely Planet Writer.

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty...

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty...

Publisher:

Total Pages: 0

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Pacific Worlds

Pacific Worlds

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Total Pages: 453

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.

Early Mapping of the Pacific

Early Mapping of the Pacific

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Total Pages: 224

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

This gorgeous edition presents nearly 300 rare Asia maps and early prints, compiled by expert Thomas Suarez.

Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin

Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Total Pages: 384

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

This book focuses on the Pacific Basin, a vast region which can be considered a microcosm of the entire surface of the Earth and which has suffered from being marginalized in most accounts of Earth-surface processes and phenomena.