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Wild life in southern Seas

documentary heritage

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Wild life in southern Seas
  • Primary Maker

     Louis Becke (Author)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    T. Fisher Unwin
  • Place
  • Date
    1897
  • Physical Description

    viii, 369 pages ; 21 cm

  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    Orca Gladiator.--Green dots of the empire: the Ellice Group.--The Tia Kau.--The Areois.--Australia's heritage; the New Hebrides group.--Jack in the atolls.--The cutting off of the "Boyd".--My native servants.--Gente Hermosa: the island of "beautiful people".--Deep-sea fishing in Polynesia.--Birgus the robber: the palm crab of the Pacific Islands.--On an Austral beach.--A noble sea game.--The gigantic albicore of Polynesia.--The takuo.--Old Samoan days.--The king's artillerymen.--"Leviathan".--An island king.--A spurious Utopia.--Love and marriage in Polynesia.--Niue∞: The "Savage Island" of Captain Cook.--The old and the new style of South Sea trader.--Rapa: the forgotten.--Hino, the apostate: a tale of the Mid-Pacific.--In the morning.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Oceania - Description and travel]

  • Associated Notes

    https://archive.org/details/wildlifeinsouthe00beckiala

    Digitised copy available to read online via the Internet Archive (accessed 24/11/2021)

  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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