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Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.. Used - Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc..., Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 3, Honolulu:: University of Hawaii Press, 2006., 2006. 8vo. xvii, [1], 429, [1] pp. Figs., index. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. ISBN 13: 9780824830427 "Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth. First set down by Egyptian storytellers, Greek philosophers, and Latin poets, such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences as the region revealed gaps and anomalies in the "great chain of being" that Charles Darwin would begin to address after his momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced similar challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. Although most missionary efforts ultimately met with success, others ended in ignominious retreat. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, leading to a guilty desire on the part of some to pull out, along with an equally guilty desire on the part of others to stay and help. This process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. After more than two millennia of fantasies, the story of the West's fascination with the insular Pacific graduated to a marked sense of disillusion that is equally visible in the paintings of Gauguin and the journalism of the nuclear Pacific. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writersâ¤some famous, some obscure. It begins in 1521 with an account of Guam by Antonio Pigafetta (one of the few men to survive Magellan's circumnavigation voyage), and ends in the late 1980s with the writing of an American woman, Joana McIntyre Varawa, as she faces the personal and cultural insecurities of marriage and settlement in Fiji. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance. Comprehensively illustrated and annotated, this anthology will introduce readers to a region central to the development of modern Western ideas." [publisher]. "This is a carefully conceived anthology covering an excellent range of subjects. The selections are well chosen and interesting, and the introductory materials are both scholarly and accessible. It should be widely used in university courses dealing with almost any aspect of the Pacific." â¤Rod Edmond, University of Kent at Canterbury., University of Hawaii Press, 2006., 2006, 0, Harvard University Press, 2012. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Harvard University Press, 2012, 2.5, Macdonald / Heritage Press , 1972. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking !. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Macdonald / Heritage Press, 1972, 3, Pegasus Books, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2013 Trade Paperback. Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, was prepared to do whatever it took to protect his queen and country. He ran a network of agents across England and Europe who provided him with information about invasions or assassination plots. He encouraged Elizabeth to make war against the Catholic Irish rebels and oversaw the execution of Mary Queen of Scots., Pegasus Books, 2013, 3, Harvard University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Harvard University Press, 2009, 2.5, Harvard University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Harvard University Press, 2009, 2.5, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The story of U-700 - the submarine that lost its nerve - is one of the most incredible of WWII. Previously unheard of, the surrender of a German U-Boat provided the Royal Navy with vital secrets on Germany's magnetic warheads and boosted British morale. For Bernhard Berndt, the insecure young officer who found himself held responsible for the catastrophe, it was the start of a nightmare of fear and persecution by his comrades in a British POW camp. This is the intriguing story of exactly what went on behind the scenes on both sides, and of one man's solitary struggle to redeem himself in the face of hopeless odds. A fascinating read for naval historians and/or submarine enthusiasts. Contains 205 pages, 22 x 14cm. Red cloth boards in illustrated dust jacket showing very slight wear to top edges, otherwise in good condition. Internally, good: clean and unmarked in excellent bindings., Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979, 2.75, Oxford: The Royal African Society/ OUP, 2000. Volume 99, Number 397, October 2000. Pages are clean and tight. some yellowing to the edges of the pages. Contents include: SOUTH AFRICA'S INQUIRY INTO RACISM IN THE MEDIA: THE ROLE OF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ; GOVERNANCE, LOCAL POLITICS AND DISTRICTIZATION IN TANZANIA: THE 1998 ARUMERU TAX REVOLT ; AFRICA'S RECORD OF REGIONAL CO-OPERATION AND INTEGRATION ; THE SCIENCE OF ‘CIVILIZED’ AGRICULTURE: THE MIXED FARMING DISCOURSE IN ZIMBABWE ; A STATE OF INSECURITY: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF VIOLENCE IN KENYA'S REFUGEE CAMPS ; THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR AND THE HISTORIANS ; BRIEFING: SENEGAL: WADE AND THE CASAMANCE DOSSIER. paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket., The Royal African Society/ OUP, 2000, 2.5, Belknap Press. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Belknap Press, 2.5, Baton Rouge: LSU Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Southern Literary Studies; 238 pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding, dustjacket clean and fresh; corner of ffep clipped. From the flap: "I've finally pretty much decided what to write next -- a novel based on Nat Turner's rebellion," twenty-six-year-old William Styron confided to his father in a letter he wrote on May 1, 1952. Styron would not publish his Pulitzer Prize--winning The Confessions of Nat Turner until 1967, but this letter undercuts those critics who later attacked the writer as an opportunist capitalizing on the heated racial climate of the late 1960s. From 1943 to 1953, Styron wrote over one hundred letters to William C. Styron, Sr., detailing his adventures, his works in progress, and his ruminations on the craft of writing. In Letters to My Father, Styron biographer James L. W. West III collects this correspondence for the first time, revealing the early, intimate thoughts of a young man who was to become a literary icon. Styron wrote his earliest letters from Davidson College, where he was very much unsure of himself and of his prospects in life. By the last few letters, however, he had achieved a great deal: he had earned a commission in the Marine Corps, survived World War II, published the novel Lie Down in Darkness (1951) and the novella The Long March (1953), and won the Prix de Rome. He had also recently married and was about to return to the United States from an expatriate period in Paris and Rome. The letters constitute a portrait of the artist as a young man. They read like an epistolary novel, with movement from location to location and changes in voice and language. Styron was extremely close to his father and quite open with him. His story is a classic one, from youthful insecurity to artistic self-discovery, capped by recognition and success. There are challenges along the way for the hero -- poor academic performance, a syphilis scare, writer's block, temporary frustration in romance. But Styron overcomes these difficulties and emerges as a confident young writer, ready to tackle his next project, the novel Set This House on Fire (1960). Rose Styron, the author's widow, contributes a prefatory memoir of the senior Styron. West has provided comprehensive annotations to the correspondence, and the volume also has several illustrations, including facsimiles of some of the letters, which survive among Styron's papers at Duke University. Finally, there is a selection of Styron's apprentice fiction from the late 1940s and early 1950s. In all of American literature, no other extended series of such letters -- son to father -- exists. Letters to My Father offers a unique glimpse into the formative years of one of the most admired and controversial writers of his time." ., LSU Press, 2009, 4<

2009, ISBN: 9780807134009

Louisiana State University Press, 2009-09. Hardcover. Used: Good., Louisiana State University Press, 2009-09, 2.5

2009, ISBN: 9780807134009

Louisiana State University Press, 2009-09. Hardcover. Good., Louisiana State University Press, 2009-09, 2.5