[PDF] My Adventures Among South Sea Cannibals eBook

Author : Douglas Rannie
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
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ISBN : 9781015131743

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Author : Douglas Rannie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780282555832

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Excerpt from My Adventures Among South Sea Cannibals: An Account of the Experiences and Adventures of a Government Official Among the Natives of Oceania The British settlers and islanders of the Western Pacific are to-day deeply grateful to Sir Samuel Griffith, at that time Premier of the Queensland Government, and his Cabinet for their wise, humane, and beneficial legislation, for it is sadly too true that the outrages committed by ships' crews led to reprisals by the natives on missionaries, settlers, or the first white man they came across. It is commonly stated among traders and others that it was thus Bishop Patteson lost his life. The Bishop, after landing, would be surrounded by a crowd of natives; he would conduct a short and simple service, after which he would try and gain their goodwill, and thus from small beginnings would try and forward his great work. This usual procedure being known to many who sailed those seas, was taken advantage of by an unmitigated scoundrel, the captain of a Labour vessel, who went ashore at Santa Cruz, an island lying between the New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands, got up in a white calico robe, to personate the Bishop. After some blasphemous buffoonery he invited a large number of the islanders on board, and they in all innocence followed him. They were shown down into the hold, where some of the crew were making a pretence of conducting Church service. The islanders unsuspecting the trap, were lured below. The hatches were promptly put on, and battened down, and the ship sailed away with her victims. 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 : Nicholas Halter
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1760464155

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This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.

Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8726986736

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‘The Cannibal Islands’ is a historical novel by prolific author R.M. Ballantyne. In it, he gives some background to the world-wide explorations of the famous Captain Cook. Ballantyne uses detailed descriptions of the customs and habits of those who Captain Cook encountered to flesh out the adventures of the famous explorer. Ballantyne is particularly fascinated by the habit of cannibalism practised by some of the people that Cook encountered. Very much of it’s time, this is nevertheless a fascinating and insightful read. R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish artist and prolific author of mostly children’s fiction. Born in Edinburgh, Ballantyne was the ninth of ten children. At the age of 16 Ballantyne moved to Canada, where he worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company, travelling all over the country to trade for fur. He returned to Scotland in 1847 following the death of his father, and it was then that he began his literary career in earnest, writing over 100 children’s adventure books over the course of his life. Stories such as ‘The Coral Island’ and ‘The Young Fur Traders’ were hugely popular, and many of them drew on his own experiences of travelling throughout Canada. A stickler for detail, Ballantyne continued to travel widely to research the backgrounds and settings for his exciting stories. His tales became an inspiration for authors of the future, including ‘Treasure Island’ novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. Ballantyne spent the latter period of his life living in London and Italy for the sake of his health. He died in Rome in 1894 at the age of 68.

Author : Richard Lansdown
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0824829026

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Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth-such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences after Darwin's momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced other challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, a process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers--some famous, some obscure. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.