Whale years / / Gregory O'Brien
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| Autore: |
O'Brien Gregory <1961->
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| Titolo: |
Whale years / / Gregory O'Brien
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| Pubblicazione: | Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (102 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 811.54 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Pacific Ocean Poetry |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Whale years |
| ISBN: | 1-86940-832-2 |
| 1-77558-793-2 | |
| 1-77558-796-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828413603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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