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  • Africa Dances

    A Journey through West Africa in 1934

    In Africa Dances Gorer takes the reader on an odyssey across West Africa. He has unique access, travelling as the friend of Féral Benga, one of the great black dance stars of 1930's Paris. It is a devastating critique of colonial rule, which is shown to be destroying African society while Christian missionaries undermine indigenous morality. Africa Dances captures the rich physical and ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Naturalist Histories

    Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania

    From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These “discoveries” and exploratory moves have had profound local and global impacts. Often, however, local knowledge and communities are silent in the ethologies and ... En savoir plus

    $27.49 CAD

  • Kava: The Pacific Elixir

    The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry

    • The most comprehensive book ever written on nature's most effective stress-relieving plant.• First paperback edition of the classic comprehensive text originally published by Yale University Press.This complete guide to kava summarizes the literature and research on a plant that is now considered comparable or superior to anti-stress prescription drugs, and describes its use in the religious, ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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    Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

    T****he monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have ... En savoir plus

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  • The Rings of Saturn

    par W. G. Sebald ...
    Traduit par Michael Hulse ...
    Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange . . . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . . . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . . . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the human spirit."—Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review"Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert ... En savoir plus

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  • Sea People

    The Puzzle of Polynesia

    “Who hasn’t stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Christina Thompson’s Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all.”—Richard Rhodes, author of Energy: A Human History and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb“Magnificent. . . . A grand, symphonic, beautifully written book. . . . Sea People is an archive-researched historical account that has the page-turning qualities of an ... En savoir plus

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  • What a Fish Knows

    The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

    The New York Times–bestselling "exploration of the world from a piscine perspective . . . makes a persuasive case that what fish know is quite a lot" (Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books).Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, ethologist Jonathan ... En savoir plus

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  • The Reef

    A Passionate History

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    Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new ... En savoir plus

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  • Fathoms

    The World in the Whale

    par Rebecca Giggs ...
    Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other ... En savoir plus

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  • Ten Birds That Changed the World

    par Stephen Moss ...
    The natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds.**“Moss is a captivating storyteller.” —**Wall Street JournalFor the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been inspired by them for our music, art, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sounding of the Whale

    Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

    "This wonderful book documents the interplays among science, conservation and politics in the evolving career of the whale over the last century." —William Perrin, Senior Scientist for Marine Mammals at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries ServiceFrom biblical times, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery. In the ... En savoir plus

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  • Pax Britannica

    par Jan Morris ...
    The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the rest of the world its traditions and tastes, ... En savoir plus

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