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Watriama and Co (the title echoes Kipling's Stalky and Co!) is a collection of biographical essays about people associated with the Pacific Islands.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laracy, Hugh (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2013.
Temas:
Watriama, William Jacob, > 1880?-1925.
Pacific Islanders > Biography.
Océaniens > Biographies.
Australasian and Pacific history.
Colonialism and imperialism.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
Regional and national history.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Pacific Islanders.
Islands of the Pacific > History.
Pacifique, Îles du > Histoire.
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific.
pacific region history.
Biographies.
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.

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