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  • South Seas Encounters

    Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America

    Edición de Richard Fulton, Peter Hoffenberg, Stephen Hancock, Allison Paynter ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

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  • This Horrid Practice

    de Paul Moon ...
    'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Voyagers

    The Settlement of the Pacific

    de Nicholas Thomas ...
    An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Human Shore

    Seacoasts in History

    de John R. Gillis ...
    Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those ... Leer más

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  • The Sounding of the Whale

    Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

    de D. Graham Burnett ...
    "This wonderful book documents the interplays among science, conservation and politics in the evolving career of the whale over the last century." —William Perrin, Senior Scientist for Marine Mammals at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries ServiceFrom biblical times, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery. In the ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Reef

    A Passionate History

    de Iain McCalman ...
    Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edición de Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six ... Leer más

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  • The Triumph of Human Empire

    Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

    de Rosalind Williams ...
    In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Bacon's make-believe ... Leer más

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  • Trying Leviathan

    The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

    de D. Graham Burnett ...
    In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Great Ocean

    Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush

    de David Igler ...
    The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and American dreams of scientific exploration, trade, and empire grew dramatically. By the time of the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Inventing 'Easter Island'

    de Beverley Haun ...
    Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans in 1722 due to its intriguing statues and complex history. Inventing 'Easter Island' examines narrative strategies and visual ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Radical by Nature

    The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

    de James T. Costa ...
    A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A collector of thousands of species new to science, he shared in the discovery of natural selection and founded the ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD