The Book Of Puka Puka

Author : Robert Dean Frisbie
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780601410
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Puka-Puka written by Robert Dean Frisbie and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1924, Robert Frisbie arrived on the island of Puka-Puka, one of the most remote in the South Pacific, to run a trading post. Within months he had learned the language and become absorbed into the ways of its ancient, indigenous community - fishing, picnicking, swimming, sleeping and falling in love."--Back cover.

Author : Florence Frisbie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692646960
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka written by Florence Frisbie and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka (2nd edition) by Florence (Johnny) Frisbie is the first book written by a Polynesian woman. It tells the amazing story of a young girl growing up on a remote island in the Cook Islands group. Written when Johnny was between the ages of 12 and 14, and published in 1948 when she was 15, Johnny likens her travels through South Pacific islands to those of Ulysses in the Odyssey. Through Johnny's fresh and unspoiled eyes, we read of a Garden-of-Eden existence on a remote atoll, where the land and the sea provide all that is necessary for life. The sea brings danger as well; Johnny describes the terror of a hurricane that all but destroys a deserted island where she and her family are marooned. The sea rises and floods the entire island to a depth of six feet; they barely survive by tying themselves to the topmost branches of a tall tree. Johnny's writing sparkles. She has humor and wisdom beyond her years as she describes life and customs on the island where she grew up. Her grandmother's extended family, the trading station operated by her father, the local witch doctor, a native missionary, her father's mistress after the death of her mother, and her first boyfriend are among the characters she describes with unflinching honesty. Cut off from the outside world, the island is so remote that six months pass between visits by passing ships. She learns at an early age to be self-reliant. Struck early by tragedy (her mother died when Johnny was nine years old), she helps her father care for four brothers and sisters until he falls ill and dies when she is sixteen. Friends including James A. Michener arrange a foster family in Hawaii where she pursues her education and re-unites with her two sisters. Out of print for more than sixty years, Johnny has added two new chapters to this classic and compelling book and illustrated it with family photos and three maps.

Author : Robert Dean Frisbie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Puka-puka written by Robert Dean Frisbie and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Dean Frisbie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Puka-puka written by Robert Dean Frisbie and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tomie dePaola
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101653477
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamie O'Rourke and the Pooka written by Tomie dePaola and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-01-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jamie O'Rourke's wife leaves him alone for a week, it's up to Jamie to do the housework. But Jamie isn't just the laziest man in Ireland, he's also the messiest! When a magical pooka arrives unexpectedly and starts to do the dishes and sweep the house, Jamie thinks that maybe he's the luckiest man in Ireland as well. But will Jamie's good fortune-and his pooka's housekeeping-last? Young readers will be giggling through Tomie dePaola's delightfully funny sequel to Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato. "DePaola's jaunty storytelling pace and his snappy Irish phrases give this tale extra sparkle." Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Robert Dean Frisbie
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Island of Desire written by Robert Dean Frisbie and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Island of Desire" is an island adventure cum romance novel by author Robert Dean Frisbie, based on his own real life adventures. Frisbie begins with the tale of his courtship of his Polynesian wife on the idyllic setting of the Puka Puka Island. Thereafter, the couple moves with their four children to Suvarrow Island in the Cook Islands. It is there that they learn to survive on the island, hunting and gathering for their needs. But their blissful life on the island will face its greatest challenge when a furious hurricane storms the island, bringing untold destruction in its wake...

Author : Tamihana Te Rauparaha
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776710592
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book He Pukapuka Tataku i Nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui / A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha written by Tamihana Te Rauparaha and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Te Rauparaha is most well known today as the composer of the haka &‘Ka mate', made famous the world over by the All Blacks. A major figure in nineteenth-century history, Te Rauparaha was responsible for rearranging the tribal landscape of a large part of the country after leading his tribe Ngati Toa to migrate to Kapiti Island. He is venerated by his own descendants but reviled with equal passion by the descendants of those tribes who were on the receiving end of his military campaigns in the musket-war era. He Pukapuka Tataku i nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui is a 50,000-word account in te reo Maori of Te Rauparaha's life, written by his son Tamihana Te Rauparaha between 1866 and 1869. A pioneering work of Maori (and, indeed, indigenous) biography, Tamihana's narrative weaves together the oral accounts of his father and other kaumatua to produce an extraordinary record of Te Rauparaha and his rapidly changing world. Edited and translated by Ross Calman, a descendant of Te Rauparaha, He Pukapuka Tataku i nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui makes available for the first time this major work of Maori literature in a parallel Maori/English edition.

Author : Robert Dean Frisbie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780601663
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Puka-puka written by Robert Dean Frisbie and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Akers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990601067
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lean Travel written by Paul Akers and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mel Kernahan
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840047
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Savages in the South Seas written by Mel Kernahan and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly