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61. Bougainville aÌ Tahiti (Dossier - SocieÌteÌ des oceÌanistes) by Etienne Taillemite | |
Paperback: 30
Pages
(1972)
Asin: B0007AGM2S Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
62. The Pacific Navigators by Oliver E Allen | |
Unbound: 176
Pages
(1980)
-- used & new: US$8.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0809426870 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (1)
Time Lifes Series of 22 books. Wrutten in the late 1970's |
63. Pacifique Sud: Roman (French Edition) by Michel Peyramaure | |
Paperback: 251
Pages
(1994)
Isbn: 2258000971 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
64. Ecrits sur le Canada: memoires, journal, lettres.: An article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | |
Digital: 9
Pages
(1996-03-22)
list price: US$5.95 -- used & new: US$5.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B00096R5HQ Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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65. Bougainville et ses compagnons autour du monde: 1766-1769, journaux de navigation (Voyages et decouvertes) (French Edition) | |
Paperback: 579
Pages
(1977)
Isbn: 2110807105 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
66. World Elsewhere: A Novel by Peter Brooks | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(1999-02-18)
list price: US$23.00 -- used & new: US$1.99 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0684853337 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description In this elegant, beautifully crafted novel of adventure, longing, and the corruption of paradise, internationally acclaimed critic and author Peter Brooks turns for the first time to the realm of historical fiction. World Elsewhere tells of the sea change of a young eighteenth-century French nobleman who embarks on a high-seas voyage that will alter dramatically his notions of humanity and civilization. Based on actual historical events and contemporary diaries, the novel takes us from a Paris of gilded royalty, casual decadence, and love affairs on an odyssey to exotic lands and foreign cultures, leading eventually to the South Pacific. At the novel's center is Prince Charles of Nassau-Siegen, a young captain in the French army. His name gives him entry to the best houses in Paris, but he is without a fortune and given to romantic entanglements. To flee financial embarrassment and an impending romantic scandal, Charles joins the frigate Boudeuse, under the command of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, as it sets out on a voyage around the world -- headed first to the tip of South America and then into the open and uncharted waters of the South Pacific. During his months at sea, Charles straggles with severe weather, a shipload of increasingly restive men, and his first challenging encounters with "primitive" peoples. But then the discovery of Tahiti brings both radical change and new challenges. Charles and his companions believe that they have stumbled upon a true earthly paradise: an island fringed with magnificent beaches, lush with exotic vegetation, inhabited by people who appear both physically and spiritually beautiful and who have put erotic love at the heart of existence. But after an idyllic beginning to their stay on the island, the French explorers begin to sense that Tahiti may have a darker side: There are signs of bloody combat with other islands and hints of ritual human sacrifice. And after three native men are killed during a quarrel with some undisciplined French soldiers, the remaining Tahitians vanish into the mountains, leaving Charles and his shipmates fearful that the seemingly gentle islanders have now become their deadly enemies and that an attack is imminent. The sudden and frightening change in their situation brings new responsibilities for Charles as he struggles to reconcile his duties as a Frenchman and a soldier with his growing love for Ité, a young Tahitian woman. Though he becomes aware of how little he can ever hope truly to understand Tahiti, Charles begins to look for a way to stay behind when the French ships continue their voyage. Yet despite his love for Ité, he begins to see that his very presence may bring corruption to this paradise. World Elsewhere is an enchanting fusion of adventure and romance. In the tradition of Shakespeare's The Tempest and Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it poignantly explores the complex issues of European colonialism, the blurring lines between civilization and savagery, and the bewitching power of idyllic love. The Tahitians' native grace and spiritual ease calls into question allCharles's assumptions about culture, even as he develops a rapportwith a lovely island maiden named Ité. Naturally, there'strouble in paradise: Charles and his shipmates find evidence ofwarfare, even human sacrifice, and a scuffle with the explorers leavesthree natives dead. As the Boudeuse prepares to sail, Charlesmust decide whether to remain with his beloved Ité or return tothe land of history, property, and time. As one might expect from a writer with Brooks's critical pedigree, thephilosophical issues at stake are never far from the surface. Hisship's officers, for instance, have a dismaying tendency to talk inchunks of lit-crit exposition: "'Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] isn't writingencomiums to the state of nature. It's the first, uncorrupted societythat interests him,' replied Commerson." Such passages aside, Brooksspins a colorful yarn that's more than mere theoreticalwindow-dressing. Prince Charles may be living out the quintessentialmale fantasy, English-professor-style, but he is a flesh-and-bloodhero whose foibles convince. Customer Reviews (15)
Is it just me?.... This isone of several books I read before a trip to Tahiti and there were aspectsI enjoyed.Bougainville's explorations seem to have been representedpretty faithfully, and gave me a wonderful historic foundation for our owntrip.The details were striking enough to stay in my mind even through allthe Mai-Tais - and I was certainly ready to forgive errors offirst-novel-itis (clumsy backstory opening, occasionally heavy narrativeetc.) But I never did manage to get rid of the ick factor.
As a person who is half tahitian, I liked this book a lot.
A sophisticated story of longing and loss
moving and entertaining
great! adventure, romance, and philosophy |
67. Bougainville, soldier and sailor, by Maurice ThieÌry | |
Unknown Binding: 291
Pages
(1932)
Asin: B00086DJ68 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
68. Bougainville and Tahiti by Arnold Whitridge | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1969)
Asin: B0007JQLSO Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
69. Parkman, Abbe Casgrain, and Bougainville's Journal (In American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. Proceedings. Worcester) by Edward Pierce Hamilton | |
Unknown Binding: 12
Pages
(1962)
Asin: B0007F393I Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
70. French argonauts of the Pacific (Franco-American pamphlets) by Elsie Murray | |
Unknown Binding: 13
Pages
(1945)
Asin: B0007HWK2C Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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