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Tag: History

Review: Sea People by Christina Thompson

A riveting and passionate tale of intellectual inquiry into the origins of Polynesia.

History, Nonfiction, Pacific Ocean, Polynesia

Review: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend

The Fifth Sun is a fascinating, scholarly and moving portrayal of a people surviving colonisation.

Aztecs, History, Mexico, Nonfiction

Review: Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva

A moving and compelling investigation into wild food and the practices of hunting and gathering, and by extension, humanity’s whole relationship to nature.

Colonialism, Conservation, Environment, History, Indigenous history, Nonfiction

Review: Truganini by Cassandra Pybus

In Truganini, historian Cassandra Pybus attempts to “release” a woman from colonial myth-making. It is a shattering book.

Australian, Biography, Colonialism, Environment, History, Indigenous history, Nonfiction, Tasmania

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The hype is real about this one, and well deserved I reckon!
A friend lent me Ted Hughes’ poetry Crow to read. I was expecting it to be mad and it delivered.
I’m equally drawn to and unsettled by the Pacific Ocean - so much deep water, so little land. The fact that islands as far apart as Hawai’i, New Zealand and Easter Island were settled a long time ago by Polynesian people seems a near-impossible feat of navigation and endurance.
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