LEADER 02923nam 2200445 450 001 9910828413603321 005 20230807205149.0 010 $a1-86940-832-2 010 $a1-77558-793-2 010 $a1-77558-796-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000600782 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1985408 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1885430 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1885430 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL800376 035 $a(OCoLC)905983751 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000600782 100 $a20150321h20152015 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhale years /$fGregory O'Brien 210 1$aAuckland, New Zealand :$cAuckland University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (102 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-336-18882-0 311 $a1-77558-794-0 327 $aCover -- About the author -- Imprint -- Contents -- Epigraphs -- One: From Various Islands -- The length of the voyage -- Raoul Island -- Emotional life of Thomas Bell, Raoul Island -- Whale Survey, Raoul Island, with Rosemary Dobson -- The captain of the Rena on Astrolabe Reef -- Oneraki -- White Island (Whakaari) -- A schematic analysis of the first and only book of the explorer Raoul H. Rangitahua (page numbers in brackets) -- A summer of inflatable gifts, Pitt Island -- Weather balloon, Raoul Island -- Loneliness of the Raoul Island weather balloon -- The return of Christ to Futuna Chapel -- Whale years -- A burning tyre, Nuku'alofa -- Luminosity -- Two: Book of Numbered Days -- I South-west Pacific: Nuku'alofa, Tonga, May 2012 -- Longitudinal -- A crown for the new King of Tonga -- Hemisphere -- A common grave, Tongatapu -- Nocturne -- Two trees -- Coconut crab, lizard and a bus called 'Psalm 23' -- Mourners of the death of the King of Tonga -- Handbook for the recovery of sea turtles -- Tapa -- A liberal economy -- Lamp and lizard -- A hundred days of mourning -- II South-east Pacific: Rapa Nui/Easter Island, July 2012 -- Del Pacifico Sudeste -- At Tongariki -- Gravestone -- Tangerine -- South-east Pacific -- On Easter Island -- Apparition of the head of a Chilean dictator as a moai, Easter Island -- Elegy -- Luck Bird -- Hanga Roa -- Guitar, Hanga Roa -- Headstone lamps, Hanga Roa -- Conversation between a stone head on Easter Island and the weather balloon, Raoul Island -- Moai, Rapa Nui -- The non-disappeared, Hanga Roa -- The zoo above our heads -- At Orongo -- A children's song, Hanga Roa -- The sky above Rapa Nui -- Church at Hanga Roa -- Three: Memory of a Fish -- Acknowledgements. 607 $aPacific Ocean$vPoetry 676 $a811.54 700 $aO'Brien$b Gregory$f1961-$01471405 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828413603321 996 $aWhale years$94042589 997 $aUNINA