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The islands of the Pacific; their peoples and their products

The islands of the Pacific; their peoples and their products

Stonehewer Cooper, H.

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral United StatesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353709822
ISBN13: 9789353709822
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step aboard a Victorian passage through the South Pacific, where every shoreline carries a story of labour, belief, and exchange. Maps, markets, myths, and people. In The Islands of the Pacific, H. Stonehewer Cooper delivers an unabridged travel classic that reads as both an ethnographic nonfiction account and a historical geography survey: island groups traced with a navigator's eye, communities observed with curiosity, and the practical question of what each place produced, traded, and prized. Cooper pays equal attention to coastline and customs, to agriculture, minerals, timber, and pearls, and to the ways outsiders sought to organise island life into ledgers and lanes of commerce in the wake of empire. Written in the language and assumptions of colonial era Oceania, this is a revealing document of pacific islands history, recording pacific island cultures alongside notes on island resources and trade, routes, and rival interests. For readers of victorian exploration writing, it offers brisk movement and vivid specificity; for students and collectors, it remains a dependable pacific studies reference and an absorbing piece of oceanic anthropology reading. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Keep it close as a library reference edition, return to it for context on the south pacific islands, or simply read for the pleasure of seeing an archipelago world described at the moment it was being measured, named, and contested.

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