Island Landfalls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Island Landfalls write by Robert Louis Stevenson. This book was released on 2010-07-01. Island Landfalls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Selected and introduced by Jenni Calder. Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have been happier to see him purely as a spinner of the picturesque, but Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the ‘stir-about of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilizations, virtues and crimes’. This collection sets three of his imaginative works —The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices, and The Beach of Falesa — within the social and political contexts of Stevenson’s letters and essays from the South Seas. Island ambience, the clash of cultures, moral ambiguities, all are there, and so too is Stevenson’s swift narrative control, giving a true modernity to his prose.
Landfalls of Paradise
Landfalls of Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landfalls of Paradise write by Earl R. Hinz. This book was released on 2006-04-30. Landfalls of Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The only complete cruising guide to the islands of the Pacific . . . a must." —Islands "A trove of information for the cruiser planning to set sail for the Pacific. . . A very readable, easy-to-follow guide." —Santana The fifth edition of this sailing standard includes updated charts and text reflecting changes in regulations and facilities for most countries and specific ports of entry. New appendices include procedures for entry to Australia, which are more exacting than most Pacific landfalls, and an extensive list of information sources: cruising guidebooks, important general tourist guides, chart suppliers, and key web sites for the countries covered by Landfalls of Paradise.
Landfalls
Landfalls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landfalls write by Naomi J. Williams. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Landfalls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery from Naomi J. Williams In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France. Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, Landfalls follows the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the ships but also of the people affected by the voyage-natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left waiting at home, and those who survived and remembered the expedition later. Each chapter is told from a different point of view and is set in a different part of the world-ranging from London to Tenerife, Alaska to remote South Pacific islands and Siberia, and eventually back to France. The result is a beautifully written and absorbing tale of the high seas, scientific exploration, human tragedy, and the world on the cusp of the modern era. By turns elegiac, profound, and comic, Landfalls reinvents the maritime adventure novel for the twenty-first century.
Tales of the South Seas
Tales of the South Seas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of the South Seas write by Robert Louis Stevenson. This book was released on 1996. Tales of the South Seas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tales from the South Seas comprises The Beach at Falesá, The Bottle Imp, The Wrecker, The Ebb Tide, The Isle of Voices, and Letters, and is introduced by Jenni Calder.
Destiny's Landfall
Destiny's Landfall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Destiny's Landfall write by Robert F. Rogers. This book was released on 2011-06-30. Destiny's Landfall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region. Its narrative spans more than 450 years, beginning with the initial written records of Guam by members of Magellan 1521 expedition and concluding with the impact of the recent global recession on Guam’s fragile economy.
