mercoledì 19 maggio 2021
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by 1818?-1891 Turner, George
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The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, The War of the Classes, and Before Adam. (wikipedia.org)
Jack Renton: The 19th-century sailor who became a South Seas headhunter by Nigel Randell Evans
A remarkable true-life heart of darkness story.
In 1868,
Jack Renton, a teenage Scots sailor, was shanghaied in San Francisco. In
1876, he was rescued from captivity on the Pacific island of Malaita,
home to a tribe of headhunters.
After the rescue, in a
sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year
adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open
whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore at Malaita, was stripped
of his clothes, possessions and his very identity, but lived to serve
the island’s tribal chief Kabou eventually as his most trusted adviser.
For all the authenticity and riveting detail, however, it turns out that
Renton’s chronicle glossed over key events that made him the man that
Kabou said he loved, "as my first-born son."
Mining the oral
history passed down in detail from generations of Malaitans, documentary
filmmaker Nigel Randell Evans has pieced together a more complete and
grislier account of Renton’s experience - as a man forced to assimilate
in order to survive. While Jack Renton is the story of a man
transformed by an island, it is also the story of a man who transformed
the island as he prepared it for the onslaught of Western civilization.
Praise for Jack Renton:
‘Nigel Randell Evans's extraordinary first book is an utterly compelling story’ - Daily Mail
‘His telling of Renton's story is brilliantly done’ - Sunday Times
'Fascinating and horrendous.' - Publishers Weekly
‘A grisly, fascinating and meticulously spun yarn’ - Good Book Guide
Nigel Randell Evans spent twenty-five years making documentaries in many parts of the world for the BBC and Channel Four. His films won three Royal Television Society Awards and two US Emmy’s. He lived in Vava’u in the Kingdom of Tonga until his death in 2014.
Maiden Manoeuvres: Volume 1 of The Sisters' Saga by Alison Ferguson
In the early 1800s, the Burbridge family nurtured a keen sense of their own importance amongst the free settlers in the penal colony of Sydney. As the eldest child, Henrietta is confident of her place at the centre of her parents' universe. However, within two years of their arrival in the colony, her father's expectations are shattered, and so he returns to England to press his log of grievances and to defend his role in deposing Governor Bligh in the Rum Rebellion.
His four-year absence alters him profoundly, turning his parental protectiveness to obsessive control. Henrietta too changes, growing from a precocious child to a wilful adolescent. On his return, conflict between them is inevitable.
Matters come to a head when Henrietta becomes infatuated with the handsome Captain Cowin. Her dreams of following him to India are realised with an invitation to live with her rich relatives in Calcutta, ostensibly to finish her education but really to make a wealthy marriage. At fourteen, her journey to India is a harrowing introduction to womanhood.
In Calcutta, Henrietta is out of her depth in this rich and sophisticated society. When sixty-year-old Mr Martin proposes, sixteen-year-old Henrietta must decide what to do.
Maiden Manoeuvres is the first of three in The Sisters' Saga, which tells of Henrietta and her sisters and the compromises they must make to reconcile love's delusions with the demands of reality.
We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn
We of the Never Never is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn first
published in 1908. Although published as a novel, it is an account of
the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka,
Northern Territory in which she changed the names of people to obscure
their identities. She published the book under the name Mrs Aeneas Gunn,
using her husband's first and last name. Over the years, newspapers and
magazine articles chronicled the fortunes of the Elsey characters.
Jeannie outlived all but Bett-Bett.
Gunpowder Green by Paul W Feenstra
A nostalgic and colourful collection
of rural New Zealand short-stories
In the tradition of iconic Kiwi short-stories, Gunpowder Green is a nostalgic look into New Zealand's unique and colourful past. Light-hearted, humorous and even thought provoking, each story is varied and highlights New Zealand rural living, a diverse culture and a forgotten yet very familiar lifestyle.
From the tragic reality of families being torn apart during WWII, Gangway to War, captures the heart, while The Mechanic rekindles fond, youthful memories and ends with a satisfying conclusion. Entertaining, fast paced and real, the stories reflect New Zealand life as it was.
Gunpowder Green offers a wholesome laugh in this wonderful character driven story. From Sheryl, the alluring local barmaid in 148 Pastoral Road, to the resilient, Mr. Prakash, the dairy owner in, A Flaming Mess. These stories reflect the best of New Zealand life in an entertaining, easy-to-read anthology of suspense, humour, and drama.
Politics, Protest, Pandemic: The Year That Changed Australian Politics by Eddy Jokovich and David Lewis
Politics, Protest, Pandemic is the story of the 2020 year in Australian
federal politics, told through a collection of extended essays from the
New Politics Australia podcast series. This was one of the most
remarkable years in human history and there was an expectation that
partisan politics could be put aside in the public interest and while
that occurred in the earlier parts of the pandemic, it was back to
business as soon as possible: point-scoring, media manipulations,
corruption, and outright mistruths told by political leaders who should
know better. The year commenced with the remnants of the catastrophic
bushfire season still lingering in the air: Prime Minister Scott
Morrison was pilloried for his lack of adequate responses at this time
but was rescued, politically, through the arrival of the coronavirus.
Australia performed remarkably well during this pandemic, but it could
have been so much better. Opportunities to reset the economy and
Australian society were overlooked, with the government's desire to
'snap-back' to the ways of the world before coronavirus started, even
though that's a world that might have disappeared forever. An excellent
guide to a dramatic year in Australian politics, providing historical
viewpoints and references which enable the reader to navigate a thorough
context and understanding of a confusing year.
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our
history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of
the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British
annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time
and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement'
was a fiction? If the 1901 parliament did not have control of the whole
continent, particularly the North, by what right could the new nation
claim it? The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru
Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and the
centuries-long legal position about British claims to the land far less
imposing than it appears. In Truth-Telling, influential historian
Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions,
with his usual sharp eye and rigour, in a book that's about the present
as much as the past. His work shows exactly why our national war
memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date
of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it
makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish
but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the
future.
The Road to Singapore: The Myth of British Betrayal by Augustine Meaher
Generations of Australians have been reared on the belief the fall of
Singapore in February 1942 was a British betrayal that exposed Australia
to Japanese invasion. In The Road to Singapore a young American
historian, using archival records from across the globe, exposes the
notion of a British betrayal as nothing more than a myth. British
authorities never gave Australia an iron-clad guarantee against enemy
attack and invasion and always stressed the need for Australians to take
responsibility for home defense. The causes and consequences of the
refusal to heed this advice are explained in this scholarly, readable
and salutary study.
Free Hands and Minds: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars by Susan Bartie
Peter Brett (1918–1975), Alice Erh-Soon Tay (1934–2004) and Geoffrey
Sawer (1910–1996) are key, yet largely overlooked, members of
Australia's first community of legal scholars. This book is a critical
study of how their ideas and endeavours contributed to Australia's
discipline of law and the first Australian legal theories. It examines
how three marginal figures – a Jewish man (Brett), a Chinese woman
(Tay), and a war orphan (Sawer) – rose to prominence during a
transformative period for Australian legal education and scholarship.
Drawing
on in-depth interviews with former colleagues and students, extensive
archival research, and an appraisal of their contributions to
scholarship and teaching, this book explores the three professors'
international networks and broader social and historical milieux. Their
pivotal leadership roles in law departments at the University of
Melbourne, University of Sydney, and the Australian National University
are also critically assessed.
Ranging from local experiences and
the concerns of a nascent Australian legal academy to the complex
transnational phenomena of legal scholarship and theory, Free Hands and Minds makes
a compelling case for contextualising law and legal culture within
society. At a time of renewed crisis in legal education and research in
the common law world, it also offers a vivid, nuanced and critical
account of the enduring liberal foundations of Australia's discipline of
law.
The Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013: Scars on the Archive (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide) 1st ed. 2017 Edition by Jesse Shipway
This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania’s past and
present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and
modernity. On the one hand, proponents of modernisation have sought to
close the past off from the present, concealing the demographic disaster
behind less demanding historical narratives and politicised
preoccupations such as convictism and environmentalism. The second
story, meanwhile, is told by anyone, aboriginal or European, who has
gone to the archive and found the genocidal horrors hidden there. This
volume blends both stories. It describes the dual logics of genocide and
modernity in Tasmania and suggests that Tasmanians will not become more
realistic about the future until they can admit a full recognition of
the colonial genocide that destroyed an entire civilisation, not much
more than 200 years ago.
Finding a Future by Rodney G. Miller
Finding a Future is the story of a family’s pursuit of independence;
hard-working northern Europeans and new generations who find lives in
New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Rodney Miller shares how
the unspoken past of voyage takers enabled new lives in new worlds, by
taking hazardous sea journeys to escape hardship, old-world poverty,
disease or persecution. As Miller explores family history, he uncovers
the life of ancestors in the poorest parts of Scotland, England,
Northern Ireland, and Germany. In this family history and personal
memoir, he sketches lives from the 1700s in the old world to new
opportunities in far-off lands. He shares reminiscence and glimpses of
Australia through to the 1970s, as he grew up to find his own future.
Miller finds ancestors’ transformations from laborer to quartermaster,
footman to farmer, gravedigger to greengrocer, schoolteacher to court
officer, and salesman to senior manager. With views into old worlds and
new, this is a story of grit and commitment, of family joys and
premature loss, of love pursued, and solitude endured… a warm
remembrance of the valued lives of forebears, family, and friends.
Kwara'ae Histories: Oral literature from Solomon Islands by Ben Burt
‘Kwara'ae Histories’ is a collection of tales told by the Kwara'ae
people of Malaita island in Solomon Islands, published in the Kwara'ae
language with English translations. These histories are a small part of
the oral literature of the island, which has much to say about
precolonial life and culture. The book and the histories are introduced
by the editor, Ben Burt, an anthropologist working for the British
Museum. Burt has researched with the Kwara’ae chiefs and people since
1979 and has worked with them to compile this book as a contribution to
preserving their traditional knowledge and culture.
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram
This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented globalization and violence. Waves Across the South shifts the narrative of the Age of Revolutions and the origins of the British Empire; it foregrounds a vast southern zone that ranges from the Arabian Sea and southwest Indian Ocean across to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and the Tasman Sea.
As the empires of the Dutch,
French, and especially the British reached across these regions, they
faced a surge of revolutionary sentiment. Long-standing venerable
Eurasian empires, established patterns of trade and commerce, and
indigenous practice also served as a context for this transformative
era. In addition to bringing long-ignored people and events to the
fore, Sujit Sivasundaram opens the door to new and necessary
conversations about environmental history, the consequences of
historical violence, the legacies of empire, the extraction of
resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut
short. The result is nothing less than a bold new way of understanding
our global past, one that also helps us think afresh about our shared
future.
No Place for the Weak: A True Story of Deviance, Torture and Social Cleansing (Ryan Green's True Crime) by Ryan Green
"It was a scene from the worst nightmare you've ever had, I don't think any of us was prepared for what we saw." - Snowtown officer
On
20 May 1999, the South Australian Police were called to investigate a
disused bank in the unassuming town of Snowtown, in connection to the
disappearance of multiple missing people. The Police were not prepared
for the chilling scene that awaited them.
The officers found six
barrels within the abandoned bank vault, each filled with acid and the
remains of eight individuals. The smell from inside the vault was so
stifling that the police required breathing equipment. Accompanying the
bodies were numerous everyday tools that pathologists would later
confirm were used for prolonged torture, murder and cannibalism.
The
findings shocked Australia to its core, which deepened still when it
was revealed that the torture and murders were committed by not one, but
a group of killers. The four men, led by John Bunting, targeted
paedophiles, homosexuals, addicts or the ‘weak’ in an attempt to cleanse
society.
No Place for the Weak is a chilling account of
the ‘Snowtown Murders’ (AKA: ‘Bodies in Barrels Murders’), and one of
the most disturbing true crime stories in Australia’s history. Ryan
Green’s riveting narrative draws the reader into the real-live horror
experienced by the victims and has all the elements of a classic
thriller.
CAUTION: This book contains descriptive accounts of
torture, abuse and violence. If you are especially sensitive to this
material, it might be advisable not to read any further.
martedì 18 maggio 2021
Giovanni Ronzoni: L'Arte per sottrazione a cura di Donato Di Poce (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)
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