Watriama and Co further Pacific islands portraits
"Watriama and Co (the title echoes Kipling's Stalky and Co!) is a collection of biographical essays about people associated with the Pacific Islands. It covers a period of almost a century and a half. However, the individual stories of first-hand experience converge to some extent in vario...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra, Australia :
ANU E Press
[2013].
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419770506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary pages; Preface; 1. Pierre Chanel of Futuna (1803-1841): The making of a saint; 2. The Sinclairs Of Pigeon Bay, or 'The 'The Prehistory of the Robinsons of Ni'ihau': An essay in historiography, or 'tales their mother told them'; 3. Insular Eminence: Cardinal Moran (1830-1911) and the Pacific islands; 4. Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924): Traveller, author, painter; 5. Niels Peter Sorensen (1848-1935): The story of a criminal adventurer; 6. John Strasburg (1856-1924): A plain sailor; 7. Ernest Frederick Hughes Allen (1867-1924): South Seas trader
- 8. Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953): Pride and prejudice in Papua9. W.J. Watriama (c. 1880-1925): Pretender and patriot, (or 'a blackman's defence of White Australia'); 10. Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969): Traveller, writer, scientist; 11. Donald Gilbert Kennedy (1898-1967): An outsider in the Colonial Service; 12. George Bogese (1904-1959): 'Just a bloody traitor'?; 13. Hector MacQuarrie (1889-1973): Traveller, writer, friend of Vouza; 14. Patrick O'Reilly (1900-1988): Bibliographer of the Pacific; Index
