A Narrative Of Four Voyages To The South Sea North And South Pacific Ocean Chinese Sea Ethiopic And Southern Atlantic Ocean Indian And Antarctic Ocean From The Year 1822 To 1831 Comprising Critical Surveys Of Coasts And Islands With Sailing Directions And An Account Of Some New And Valuable Discoveries Including The Massacre Islands Where 13 Of The Authors Crew Were Massacred And Eaten By Cannibals To Which Is Prefixed A Brief Sketch Of The Authors Early Life

Author : Benjamin Morrell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282459109
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book A Narrative of Four Voyages, to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean Indian and Antarctic Ocean, From the Year 1822 to 1831 written by Benjamin Morrell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Narrative of Four Voyages, to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean Indian and Antarctic Ocean, From the Year 1822 to 1831: Comprising Critical Surveys of Coasts and Islands, With Sailing Directions; And an Account of Some New and Valuable Discoveries, Including the Massacre Islands, Where Thirteen of the Author's Crew Were Massacred IN appearing thus before the public, and for the first time - not only as an author, but as the discoverer of countries the very existence of which was before unknown to the civilized world - the writer of the subsequent pages is aware that he is advancing claims of no ordinary character. With what degree of ability they are about to be sustained remains yet to be seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Benjamin Morrell
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Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book A Narrative of Four Voyages written by Benjamin Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Morrell
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Total Pages : 514 pages
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Author : Benjamin Morrell
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Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book A Narrative of Four Voyages, to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Antarctic Ocean. From the Year 1822 to 1831 ... To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Early Life. [With a Portrait.] written by Benjamin Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Jolly
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921536292
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oceanic Encounters written by Margaret Jolly and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of `encounter¿ rather than the more common idea of `first contact¿ for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of `strangers¿ or `others¿ but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.

Author : Jeremiah N. Reynolds
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the United States Frigate Potomac written by Jeremiah N. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770481966
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Allan Poe’s only long fiction has provoked intense scholarly discussions about its meaning since its first publication. The novel relates the adventures of Pym after he stows away on a whaling ship, where he endures starvation, encounters with cannibals, a whirlpool, and finally a journey to an Antarctic sea. It draws on the conventions of travel writing and science fiction, and on Poe’s own experiences at sea, but is ultimately in a category of its own. Appendices include virtually all of the contemporary sources of exploration and south polar navigation that Poe consulted and adapted to the narrative, together with reviews and notices of Pym and a sampling of responses to the novel from a wide array of authors, from Herman Melville to Jules Verne. Seven illustrations are also included.

Author : James Fairhead
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198779
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Captain and "the Cannibal" written by James Fairhead and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange odyssey the two men shared in ensuing years. The account is uniquely told, as much from the captive's perspective as from the American's. Upon returning to New York, Morrell exhibited Dako as a “cannibal” in wildly popular shows performed on Broadway and along the east coast. The proceeds helped fund a return voyage to the South Pacific—the captain hoping to establish trade with Dako's assistance, and Dako seizing his only chance to return home to his unmapped island. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrell's ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dako's life, and the two men's infusion into American literature—Dako inspired Melville's Queequeg, for example. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive.

Author : Tod F. Stuessy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030478718
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental History of Oceanic Islands written by Tod F. Stuessy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Juan Fernández Archipelago is located in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile at 33° S latitude. Robinson Crusoe Island is 667 km from the continent and approximately four million years old; Alejandro Selkirk Island is an additional 181 km west and only one million years old. The natural impacts of subsidence and erosion have shaped the landscapes of these islands, resulting in progressive changes to their subtropical vegetation. The older island has undergone more substantial changes, due to both natural causes and human impacts. After the discovery of Robinson Crusoe Island in 1574, people began cutting down forests for lumber to construct boats and homes, for firewood, and to make room for pastures. Domesticated plants and animals were introduced, some of which have since become feral or invasive, causing damage to the local vegetation. The wealth of historical records on these activities provides a detailed chronicle of how human beings use their environment for survival in a new ecosystem. This book offers an excellent case study on the impacts that people can have on the resources of an oceanic island.

Author : Robert Charles Sands
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Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book The Writings of Robert C. Sands written by Robert Charles Sands and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: