The Return Of Lono

Author : Elizabeth K. Bushnell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870229312
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of Lono written by Elizabeth K. Bushnell and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1979-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is a fictional reconstruction of the momentous visit to the island of Hawaii in 1779 by Captain James Cook and his company aboard H.M.S. Resolution and Discovery. The natives believed this first white visitor to be Lono, their long-awaited god of agriculture and the harvest. Realizing the benefits of being thought a god, Cook did nothing to dispel the misconception. Although most of his crew thoroughly enjoyed the pleasures offered by the island paradise, some men, including Ship's Master William Bligh (later captain of H.M.S. Bounty) and the American colonist John Ledyard, feared and resented the false position taken by their practical captain. In the quiet rebellion that followed, Captain Cook, a scientist and a man of reason, would not be persuaded by the convictions of his religious antagonist, who believed the mission doomed to failure because of his blasphemous acts. The accuracy of their predictions is left for the reader to decide. The story is told by Jonathan Forrest, a midshipman on Cook's flagship, the Resolution. Through his eyes are shown many scenes of shipboard and island life, the thoughts and actions of the ill-fated captain, and the events leading ultimately to the tragedy which affected the first Europeans to visit the Hawaiian Islands.

Author : Oswald A. Bushnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of Lono written by Oswald A. Bushnell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oswald A. Bushnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of Lono written by Oswald A. Bushnell and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836548960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curse of Lono written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Hunter S. Thompson's and Ralph Steadman's most eccentric book "The Curse of Lono" is to Hawaii what "Fear and Loathing" was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, "The Curse of Lono" features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadmanduo became known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter's oeuvre, was long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. TASCHEN's signed, limited edition sold out before the book even hit the stores--this unlimited version, in a different, smaller format, makes "The Curse of Lono" accessible to everyone.

Author : Lars-Benja Braasch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640296753
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and death of Captain James Cook as the Hawaiian god „Lono“ written by Lars-Benja Braasch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Constance, course: The Sunset State , language: English, abstract: On January 17th 1779, the HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, and the HMS Discovery under the command of Captain Charles Clerke anchored for the first time in a shallow bay on the west of Hawaii, which the natives called Kealakekua Bay. Immediately, the ships were surrounded by a huge crowd of Indians, either swimming around them or circling them in canoes. Cook describes the situation in his journal: “I have no where in this Sea seen such a number of people assembled at one place, besides those in the Canoes all the Shore of the bay was covered with people and hundreds were swimming about the Ships like shoals of fish”. Due to a lack of understanding the native’s language, Cook and his crew had no chance of realizing that all those people had gathered not only to greet strangers from across the ocean, but to celebrate the arrival of their god Lono, who was believed to have sailed across the ocean in search of his wife “in time immemorial” and was due to return. In his last journal-entry Cook writes: “... to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed, in every respect, to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean” [...]

Author : Janet Susan Holman
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 143436898X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enlightenment and Captain James Cook written by Janet Susan Holman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May all beings enjoy 'The Enlightenment.' The Enlightenment and Captain James Cook, The Lono-Cook-Kirk-Regenesis, is a thoroughly informative and a deeply personal read. It is a fictionalized biography that takes place during Britain's 'Age of Enlightenment and Discovery' and it is highly 'truth based, ' integrating the 'first written and compiled' Polynesian facts and mythology that includes the diaries and actual journals of the many men on board Cook's ships. No writer has better put together a more complete compilation of the facts integrated with mythology and told in novel form, giving the reader a bird's eye view of the action. She touches on James Cook and his co-relation with Gene Roddenberry's James T. Kirk and how it inter-relates with her own account of learned spiritual wisdom and her 'mythic writers journey.' She gives a personal account of her journey that was guided by the 'Aumakua' (Hawaiian and British ancestors alike) and Archangel Metatron, to create a feature film script about James Cook that led her on a spiritual pilgrimage where she encountered the truth behind, reincarnation, remanifestation, archetypes and extraterrestrial realities. She then made a trip to Sarnath, India and also discovered a link to Polynesia with the name 'Lono' (or Rono; the name Cook was referred to as when he arrived in Polynesia) and the 'Phurba Diety' in ancient Tibet. Reviews This is an important story that needs to be told and your writing is very good. See to it that the film gets produced. Jagdish P. Sharma, Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Author : Lars-Benja Braasch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640302257
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Death of Captain James Cook as the Hawaiian God "Lono" written by Lars-Benja Braasch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Constance, course: The Sunset State, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: On January 17th 1779, the HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, and the HMS Discovery under the command of Captain Charles Clerke anchored for the first time in a shallow bay on the west of Hawaii, which the natives called Kealakekua Bay. Immediately, the ships were surrounded by a huge crowd of Indians, either swimming around them or circling them in canoes. Cook describes the situation in his journal: "I have no where in this Sea seen such a number of people assembled at one place, besides those in the Canoes all the Shore of the bay was covered with people and hundreds were swimming about the Ships like shoals of fish". Due to a lack of understanding the native's language, Cook and his crew had no chance of realizing that all those people had gathered not only to greet strangers from across the ocean, but to celebrate the arrival of their god Lono, who was believed to have sailed across the ocean in search of his wife "in time immemorial" and was due to return. In his last journal-entry Cook writes: "... to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed, in every respect, to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean" [...]

Author : Kei Yoshida
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739174002
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism written by Kei Yoshida and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism: A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions critically assesses cultural interpretivism by scrutinizing five different proponents of it and their solutions to the problem of rationality. The book examines the works of Peter Winch, Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz, Marshall Sahlins, and Gananath Obeyesekere and their contributions to the so-called rationality debate in the philosophy of the social sciences. This debate began with Winch’s criticism of Edward Evans-Pritchard and has become one of the central debates in the field since 1960s, continuing as a controversy between Sahlins and Obeyesekere. Kei Yoshida reveals the need for a cogent solution to the problem of rationality. He identifies two main problems with previous theories: first, that they exaggerate the differences between the natural and the social/cultural, and hence they also exaggerate the differences between the natural and the social sciences; and second, that they ignore important social science problems, particularly outcomes from the unintended consequences of human actions. Yoshida urges social scientists not simply to interpret agents’ intentions or symbolic systems, but also to explain the unintended consequences of human actions. Still entangled in positivism, cultural interpretivists claim that the social sciences differ from the natural sciences and thus reject any unity of method. Yoshida argues that we need to overcome the mistaken positivist image of science in order to develop a more fruitful philosophy of the social sciences. The analysis presented in this book will be of value to students and scholars of social epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of the social sciences, and the social sciences themselves, as well as anyone interested in the philosophical problem of rationality and relativism.

Author : David King of Hawaii Kalakaua
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The fables and folk-lore of a strange people written by David King of Hawaii Kalakaua and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The fables and folklore of a strange people depicts the mythological history of Hawaii. It was written by the last living king on the island, David Kalākaua.

Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226845605
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingship and Sacrifice written by Valerio Valeri and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-06-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.