Plumes from 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 Plumes from Paradise write by Pamela Swadling. This book was released on 2019-12. Plumes from Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, plumes, sea slugs, shells and pearls all brought traders from distant markets. Among the most sought-after was the bird of paradise. Their magnificent plumes bedecked the hats of fashion-conscious women in Europe and America, provided regalia for the Kings of Nepal, and decorated the headdresses of Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Plumes from Paradise tells the story of this interaction, and of the economic, political, social and cultural consequence for the island's inhabitants. It traces 400 years of economic and political history, culminating in the 'plume boom' of the early part of the 20th century, when an unprecedented number of outsiders flocked to the island's coasts and hinterlands. The story teems with the variety of people involved: New Guineans, Indonesians, Chinese, Europeans, hunters, traders, natural historians and their collectors, officials, missionaries, planters, miners, adventurers of every kind. In the wings were the conservationists, whose efforts brought the slaughter of the plume boom to an end and ushered in an era of comparative isolation for the island that lasted until World War II.
Birds of Paradise
Birds 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 Birds of Paradise write by Tim Laman. This book was released on 2012. Birds of Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.
Paradise Plumes
Paradise Plumes - 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 Paradise Plumes write by G. Munro Turnbull. This book was released on 1934. Paradise Plumes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
New Guinea
New Guinea - 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 New Guinea write by Clive Moore. This book was released on 2003-07-31. New Guinea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia’s Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety. The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region and argues that interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the "invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate. Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks prior to Western contact. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the final chapter.
Bird Lore
Bird Lore - 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 Bird Lore write by . This book was released on 1921. Bird Lore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
