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Author |
: W. Michael Gear |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0330339133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780330339131 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis People of the Sea by : W. Michael Gear
The coastal people of what will be California, Arizona and New Mexico are struggling with the changing world around them. As the mammoths disappear, the seer Sunchaser must decide whether to shelter a beautiful stranger and risk angering the Spirits further.
Author |
: Christina Thompson |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2019-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062060891 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062060899 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sea People by : Christina Thompson
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.
Author |
: David Thomson |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781841951072 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1841951072 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The People of the Sea by : David Thomson
David Thomson visited the remote sea coasts of the Scottish Isles and the West of Ireland on journeys in search of the legends of the selchies - mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans. A magical world emerged, in which men are rescued by seals in stormy seas, take seal-women for their wives and have their children suckled by seal-mothers. Mysterious and fascinating, these stories retain their spellbinding charm through Thomson's beautiful prose. The People of the Sea is a timeless and haunting book, rich in rewards and surprises.
Author |
: James Wharram |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1907206582 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781907206580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis People of the Sea by : James Wharram
Author |
: Paul D'Arcy |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 082482959X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824829599 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis The People of the Sea by : Paul D'Arcy
Countering the dominant paradigms of recent Pacific Islands' historiography, which tend to limit understanding of the sea's importance, this volume emphasizes the flux in the maritime environment and how it instilled an expectation and openness toward outside influences and the rapidity with which cultural change could occur in relations between various Islander groups." "Students and scholars of Pacific history and environmental and cultural studies will welcome this re-evaluation of the sea's influence in Oceanic history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Rita Astuti |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 1995-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521433501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521433509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis People of the Sea by : Rita Astuti
The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity, showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship also uncovers an opposite form of identity based on descent, which she argues is the identity of the dead. By looking at key mortuary rituals that engage the relationship between the living and the dead, Dr Astuti develops a dual model of the Vezo person: the one defined contextually in the present, the other determined by the past.
Author |
: Richard Stephen Felger |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 455 |
Release |
: 2016-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816534753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816534756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis People of the Desert and Sea by : Richard Stephen Felger
"People of the Desert and Sea is one of those books that should not have to wait a generation or two to be considered a classic. A feast for the eye as well as the mind, this ethnobotany of the Seri Indians of Sonora represents the most detailed exploration of plant use by a hunting-and-gathering people to date. . . . Scholarship in the best sense of the term—precise without being pedantic, exhaustive without exhausting its readers."—Journal of Arizona History "To read and gaze through this elegantly illustrated book is to be exposed, as if through a work of science fiction, to an astonishing and unknown cultural world."—North Dakota Quarterly
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 1941 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0395150825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780395150825 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paddle-to-the-Sea by :
A small canoe carved by an Indian boy makes a journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Author |
: Marc O'Sullivan Vallig |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2020-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798667135067 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis People of the Sea by : Marc O'Sullivan Vallig
The Beara peninsula straddles counties Cork and Kerry. It extends some thirty miles into the Atlantic and is bounded on the north by Kenmare Bay and on the south by Bantry Bay. The history of Beara is inseparable from that of its maritime culture, celebrated in this collection of interviews with local fishermen, boat owners, agents, dealers, search and rescue personnel and others associated with the sea.Marc O'Sullivan Vallig is a writer, artist and curator from Eyeries, Beara.People of the Sea: A Maritime History of Beara is published by Beara Tourism, with support from BIM.
Author |
: Thomas P. Peschak |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 197 |
Release |
: 2014-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226047928 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022604792X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sharks and People by : Thomas P. Peschak
At once feared and revered, sharks have captivated people since our earliest human encounters. Children and adults alike stand awed before aquarium shark tanks, fascinated by the giant teeth and unnerving eyes. And no swim in the ocean is undertaken without a slight shiver of anxiety about the very real—and very cinematic—dangers of shark bites. But our interactions with sharks are not entirely one-sided: the threats we pose to sharks through fisheries, organized hunts, and gill nets on coastlines are more deadly and far-reaching than any bite. In Sharks and People acclaimed wildlife photographer Thomas Peschak presents stunning photographs that capture the relationship between people and sharks around the globe. A contributing photographer to National Geographic, Peschak is best known for his unusual photographs of sharks—his iconic image of a great white shark following a researcher in a small yellow kayak is one of the most recognizable shark photographs in the world. The other images gathered here are no less riveting, bringing us as close as possible to sharks in the wild. Alongside the photographs, Sharks and People tells the compelling story of the natural history of sharks. Sharks have roamed the oceans for more than four hundred million years, and in this time they have never stopped adapting to the ever-changing world—their unique cartilage skeletons and array of super-senses mark them as one of the most evolved groups of animals. Scientists have recently discovered that sharks play an important role in balancing the ocean, including maintaining the health of coral reefs. Yet, tens of millions of sharks are killed every year just to fill the demand for shark fin soup alone. Today more than sixty species of sharks, including hammerhead, mako, and oceanic white-tip sharks, are listed as vulnerable or in danger of extinction. The need to understand the significant part sharks play in the oceanic ecosystem has never been so urgent, and Peschak’s photographs bear witness to the thrilling strength and unique attraction of sharks. They are certain to enthrall and inspire.