Landscaping and Palms
I thought that for this particular article I would talk a little bit about landscaping and the use of palm trees, both to enhance the vistas in any garden. I suppose in a way palms evoke thoughts of the tropics, South Sea Islands with sandy ... [... more]
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Christopher Gair
Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author's own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here ... [... more]
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Martin Davies
Martin Davies, a television producer, is the author of two mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes's housekeeper. He lives in London. In 1774, an unusual bird was spotted on Captain Cook's second expedition to the South Seas. This single specimen was ... [... more]
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Alexander Frater
Alexander Frater was born to a family of Scottish expatriates on the tiny island of Irikiki in the South Seas. Following his dreams of being a writer, Frater left home, but the call of the tropics compelled him to return again and again. has ... [... more]
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Adam Mars-Jones
After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children-immoral ... [... more]
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Paul Garrison
Like his grandfather, who wandered the South Seas in the last of the square-rigged trading vessels, Paul Garrison spends as much time as he can at sea working with boats, tugs, and ships. He is the author of Fire and Ice, Red Sky at Morning, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Explorers Wanted South Sea Islands
Author: Simon Chapman Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781405207287 ISBN: 1405207280 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2004-08-15 [... more]
CDN$12.50
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Pippi Longstocking: Adventures on the South Seas
From Amazon.com: Don't confuse this new animated version with the late-'60s, early-'70s Pippi-fests starring the ultimate Pip-ster, Inger Nilsson (who starred in three Swedish Pippi films as well as a Pippi TV series). Nilsson's version of Pippi in the [... more]
CDN$10.40
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Penguin Classics In The South Seas
Indispensible to Readers of the Pacific: If you read only one "South Seas" book from the 1920s back, this should be the one. This Penguin issue corrects a number of inaccuracies from previous editions, including Stevenson's own error in their [... more]
CDN$15.05
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Pippi In The South Seas
The Best of Pippi!: This is my favorite Pippi Longstocking book because it takes Pippi from her home at Villa Villekulla into the exciting world of beaches, huts, cannibals, robbers, and pearls of the South Pacific! Over the years, some have complained [... more]
CDN$6.99
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Tabu: A Story Of The South Sea
From Amazon.com: Conceived by two master filmmakers, but essentially made by only one, Tabu is the last great silent film (released four years into the talkie era). Few classics have had a more fraught history, starting with the dicey notion of combining [... more]
CDN$49.99
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South Sea Tales
This is not South Sea Tales: One star is not because the Jack London stories in this book are not wonderful. It is because this book is not South Sea Tales by Jack London, which I first got from my grandfather's bookshelf and was one of the most [... more]
CDN$16.95
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