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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Pierre Chanel of Futuna (1803-1841) : the making of a saint
- 2. The Sinclairs of Pigeon Bay, or '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 Papua
- 9. 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.