In Search Of The Friendly Islands

Author : Kalafi Moala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Friendly Islands written by Kalafi Moala and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the dilemmas, paradoxes and challenges of modern Tonga. An examination of how tradition and modernity co-exist in Tongan society and in the diasporic Tongan communities in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. Examines issues including domestic violence, the culture of domination and hierarchy, traditional and modern leadership, the 16/11 riots, economic development, globalisation and spirituality.

Author : Fred J. Eckert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882793006
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tonga written by Fred J. Eckert and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noel Rutherford
Publisher : Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friendly Islands written by Noel Rutherford and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott Hamilton
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0947518126
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stolen Island written by Scott Hamilton and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘What had happened to the stolen islanders? Had any survived slavery?’ One day in 1863 a strange ship stopped at ‘Ata, a tiny island in the wild seas between Tonga and New Zealand, and sailed away with one hundred and forty-four men, women and children. The ‘Atans were never heard from again, and in Tonga their fate became the subject of legends and superstitions. Uncovering the tragedy of ‘Ata takes Scott Hamilton on a journey to the kava circles and caves of Tonga and back to the streets of Auckland. The Stolen Island is a twenty-first century true sea story revealing slavers, mutinies, castaways, pirates and a cruel streak in Pacific history that is often overlooked but not forgotten.

Author : Thurston Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for Crusoe written by Thurston Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They inspire feelings of great passion, serenity, and sometimes fear . . . they give people the opportunity to find themselves--or to lose their minds . . . they are revered as paradise or treated as junkyards . . . both haunted by and respectful of history . . . they are central to the myths and religions of many peoples throughout time . . . they provide a real, friendly community or the hell of repetitive social encounters . . . What is it about islands that has captivated millions of people around the world and through the centuries? In a penetrating, brilliantly written book that weaves sociology, history, politics, personality, and ancient and popular culture into one compelling narrative, Thurston Clarke island-hops around the oceans of the world, searching for an explanation for the most passionate and enduring geographic love affair of all time--between humankind and islands. Along the way Clarke visits the remote and silent Mas À Tierra, the island off the coast of Chile that inspired Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe; tropical Banda Neira, one of the Spice Islands, where its self-crowned prince hopes for nothing less than nutmeg's complete and glorious revival; sleepy, simple Campobello, the Canadian island where Franklin D. Roosevelt spent his boyhood summers; Patmos, with its imposing mountaintop monastery; Malekula, once the most notorious cannibal island in the world; and Jura in Scotland's Hebrides, where George Orwell wrote 1984--the island that turned Clarke into a islomane, someone Lawrence Durrell says experiences an "indescribable intoxication" at finding himself in "a little world surrounded by the sea." Despite colonialism and missionary conversions, wartime scars and shrinking coasts, islands have thrived. Though each island is unique in its own way, Clarke discovers that the islanders themselves are a distinct people-- tranquilized by their watery horizons yet sensitive to the first shift in weather, conservative yet more likely to drop their inhibitions because no one is looking. And over every island falls the shadow of Robinson Crusoe, persuading us that islands are more liberating than confining, more contemplative than lonely, more holy than barbaric because we have been "removed from all the wickedness of the world." In a stunning work of wit, adventure, and incisive exploration, Thurston Clarke brings a unique passion to dazzling life.

Author : Walter LAWRY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Second Missionary Visit to the Friendly and Feejee Islands, in the Year MDCCCL ... Edited by the Rev. Elijah Hoole ... Second Edition written by Walter LAWRY and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter C. Phan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031646
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianities in Migration written by Peter C. Phan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book migrates through continents, regions, nations, and villages, in order to tell the stories of diverse kinds of nomadic dwellers. It departs from Africa, en routes itself toward Asia, Oceania, Europe, and culminates in the Americas, with the territories of Latin America, Canada, and the United States. The volume travels through worn out pathways of migration that continue to be threaded upon today, and theologically reflects on a wide range of migratory aims that result also in diverse forms of indigenization of Christianity. Among the main issues being considered are: How have globalization and migration affected the theological self-understanding of Christianity? In light of globalization and migration, how is the evangelizing mission of Christianity to be understood and carried out? What ecclesiastical reforms if any are required to enable the church to meet present-day challenges?

Author : Walter Lawry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Second Missionary Visit to the Friendly and Feejee Islands, in the Year MDCCCL written by Walter Lawry and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: