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The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and...

Myths & Legends of the Polynesians is an account of the history, art and mythology of the Polynesian peoples. The Polynesians had many myths and legends, but through the ages they had been circulated by word of mouth, and not recorded. They were recalled from the vast storehouse of time...

Polynesian Researches:Hawaii is the famous record of the author's visit to the Hawaiian Islands in the early nineteenth century. It includes an account of Hawaiian history, government, religion , warfare, and traditions- a general survey of Hawaiian life. More than this, it is the author's personal...

First published in 1729. "I had spent about 5 weeks in ranging off and on the coast of New Holland, a length of about 300 leagues: and had put in at 3 several places to see what there might be thereabouts worth discovering; and at the same time to recruit my stock of fresh water and provisions for the...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS VOLUME I, THE PREFACE. CHAPTER 1. CHAPTER 2. CHAPTER 3. AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL PLANTS. AN ACCOUNT OF SOME FISHES. VOLUME II CHAPTER 1. ... CHAPTER 6.

'The majestic beauty of Van Diemen’s Land as well as its tendency to foster grotesque violence is effectively captured in this narrative of notorious convict Alexander Pearce.’ Sydney Morning HeraldFor the convicts transported from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded...

Gedurende een reeks van jaren was ik op het kantoor van den heer Andreas Mertel werkzaam geweest en reeds tot tweeden boekhouder opgeklommen, toen de chef van het huis op een goeden dag zijn bedienden kwam mededeelen, dat hij voornemens was de zaak aan zijn beide zoons over te doen en stil te gaan...

The Anderson's continue their adventures in Part 5: Off to the Land of Oz. They arrive unprepared in Perth, hire the biggest RV they could find, and drive off on the wrong side of the road in this humorous recount of how natural disasters can make even the best laid plans irrelevant. Sharks,...

Fierce Heart is the biography of a community and a portrait of its people. Although Makaha is a small, isolated town on the Western coast of Oahu, it has produced some of the most intriguing Hawaiians of the twentieth century: world-class surfers Buffalo Keaulana and his sons Rusty and Brian; beautiful...

Your essential companion for skiing and snowboarding New Zealand’s North and South Islands – from Whakapapa to Coronet Peak – plus travelling to ski resorts like Queenstown and Wanaka. Packed with essential information about every New Zealand ski area, it’s no wonder that Lonely...

What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford—adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River—likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford...

Debbie has two special secrets, and she doesn't want to share them with her brother Billy; however, when her grandfather, Dada Keen, comes to visit, Sally knows she can trust him. Debbie shows the treasure she found, the speckled eggs in the "Gorgemas Tree," and Dada Keen shows Debbie a...

Rugby is New Zealand's national sport. From the grand tour by the 1888 Natives to the upcoming 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in the Second World War to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park,...

No contest has captured the imagination of cricket lovers around the world as much as the Ashes. From the controversy of the Bodyline series to the brilliance of Bradman, from the heroics of batsmen like Botham and Ponting to the bowling magic of Warne, this is an event that has always demanded the very...