by Graham Harvey and Charles D. Thompson, Jr (2005)
"Indigenous religions are now present not only in their places of origin but globally. They are significant parts of the pluralism and diversity of the contemporary world, especially when their performance enriches and/or challenges host populations. Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations engages with examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes significantly to debates about indigenous cultures and religions and to understandings of identity and alterity in late- or post-modernity. This book promises to enrich understanding of indigenity and of the globalized world in which indigenous people play diverse roles."--BOOK JACKET.
David Hampshire
Provides newcomers to Australia with practical information necessary for a relatively trouble-free life. Includes: finding a job, permits & visas, health, accommodation, finance, insurance, education, shopping, post office and telephone services, public transport, motoring, TV and radio, leisure, and sports.
Jocelyn Reekie
In 1857, after her uncle evicts thirteen-year-old Tess and her father from their Scotland home and they are forced to emigrate to Vancouver Island, Canada, she forms her own opinions about social and class differences.
Geoffrey Moorhouse
This book tells the story of Skellig Michael, one of two great rocks which rise out of the Atlantic 8 miles from Kerry. For 600 years it accommodated a monastery. Now it is a place of mystery with considerable historical significance.
Herman Melville
At one time the most popular of Melville's works, Typee was known as a travelogue that idealized and romanticized a mysterious South Sea island for readers in the ruthless, industrial, "civilized" world of the nineteenth century. But Melville's story of Tommo, the Yankee sailor who enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku Hiva, is also a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's own Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual. This edition of Typee, which reproduces the definitive text and the complete, never-before-published manuscript reading text, includes invaluable explanatory commentary by John Bryant.