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Whale years /
For more than three years, poet and artist Gregory O & rsquo;Brien followed the migratory routes of whales and seabirds across vast tracts of the South Pacific Ocean, resulting in a collection of poems that stand as a homage to a series of remarkable locations and the natural histories of those...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Auckland, New Zealand :
Auckland University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- About the author; Epigraphs; One: From various islands; The length of the voyage; Raoul Island; Emotional life of Thomas Bell, Raoul Island; Whale survey, Raoul Island, with Rosemary Dobson; The captain of the Rena on Astrolabe Reef; Oneraki; White Island (Whakaari); A schematic analysis of the first and only book of the explorer Raoul H. Rangitahua (page numbers in brackets); A summer of inflatable gifts, Pitt Island; Weather balloon, Raoul Island; Loneliness of the Raoul Island weather balloon; The return of Christ to Futuna Chapel; Whale years.
- A burning tyre, Nuku'alofa luminosity; Two: Book of numbered days; I South-west Pacific: Nuku'alofa, Tonga, May 2012; Longitudinal; A crown for the new King of Tonga; Hemisphere; A common grave, Tongatapu; Nocturne; Two trees; Coconut crab, lizard and a bus called 'Psalm 23'; Mourners of the death of the King of Tonga; Handbook for the recovery of sea turtles; Tapa; A liberal economy; Lamp and lizard; A hundred days of mourning; II South-east Pacific: Rapa Nui/Easter Island, July 2012; Del Pacifico Sudeste; At Tongariki; Gravestone; Tangerine; South-east Pacific; On Easter Island.
- Apparition of the head of a Chilean dictator as a moai, Easter Island; Elegy; Luck bird; Hanga Roa; Guitar, Hanga Roa; Headstone lamps, Hanga Roa; Conversation between a stone head on Easter Island and the weather balloon, Raoul Island; Moai, Rapa Nui; The non-disappeared, Hanga Roa; The zoo above our heads; At Orongo; A children's song, Hanga Roa; The sky above Rapa Nui; Church at Hanga Roa; Three: Memory of a fish; Acknowledgements.