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White Shadows in the South Seas (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Frederick OBrien
Paperback - $51.95
"There is in the nature of every man, I firmly believe, a longing to see and know the strange places of the world. Life imprisons us all in its coil of circumstance, and the dreams of romance that color boyhood are forgotten, but they do not die. The ...
Island World : A History of Hawai'i and the United States
Gary Y. Okihiro
Hardcover - $43.95
"This quirky, brilliant book gives the reader the thrill of cultural history done well. Okihiro undertakes a conventional topic in a jarring way, avoiding the assumption of set boundaries of nations and human societies."--Henry Yu, author of "Thinkin ...
Black Islanders : A Personal Perspective of a Bougainville 1937-1991
Douglas L. Oliver
Paperback - $52.95
Destiny's Landfall : A History of Guam
Robert F. Rogers
Paperback - $59.95
Ferdinand Magellan's fateful landfall on Guam, the first inhabited Pacific island known to Europeans, ushered in the age of European exploration in the Pacific and led inexorably to foreign domination of every traditional island society throughout Oc ...
Apologies to Thucydides : Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa
Marshall David Sahlins
Hardcover - $60.95
Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history--including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptio ...
Aloha Betrayed : Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
Noenoe K. Silva
Paperback - $47.95
Edingburgh Picturesque Notes
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paperback - $26.95
Greyfriars is continually overrun by cats. I have seen one afternoon, as many as thirteen of them seated on the grass beside old Milne, the Master Builder, all sleek and fat, and complacently blinking, as if they had fed upon strange meats. Old Milne ...