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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. My own experiences of Polynesia are from the 1970s and 1980s. Much is now citified and altered by the modern influences of European life. But, even though the second is almost always true, much is still as it is described in this book. It's a magical part of our planet and visiting it, or reading about it from any decade's volumes, is recommended for enquiring minds of all ages. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Faery Lands of the South Seas is a collection of short stories of the South Pacific. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)996.2History and Geography Oceania and elsewhere Polynesia South central Pacific islandsClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Throughout, Nordhoff and Hall themselves long for earlier days in Polynesia. They imagine a time one hundred or two hundred years earlier, when the peoples of the region were untouched by the materialism, nurtured desires, and presence of White men. It is quite ironic, really. For just as Nordhoff and Hall lament the passing of that time, current readers in the late second decade of the twenty-first century feel the same towards Nordhoff and Hall's time.
This non-fiction book provides a look at the islands just before their historic cultures were obliterated for all time by the coming of World War II and its aftermath. Nordhoff and Hall could never have imagined the impact of the war in the Pacific, although they did live to see it--Nordhoff died in 1947, in California, and Hall died in 1951, on Tahiti. For those readers who still wish to be swept up in the romance and adventure of that earlier era, this volume remains a staple. ( )