South Seas Culture

Maia, an orphan, can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon. She imagines a loving family with whom she will share great adventures. Instead she finds two spiteful cousins who see the jungle as the enemy and refuse to go outdoors.

Most readers are familiar with Jack London's stories of the frozen northland, such as White Fang and To Light a Fire, but many critics feel he should be equally acknowledged for his fascinating stories of the South Pacific. Here is another remote corner of the world, a background for his magnificently colorful and entertaining Tales of the South Pacific.

This isn’t just a Puglia Travel Guide. It’s a better way to travel!Instead of just checking off tourist sites, immerse yourself in local rhythms, sacred traditions, seasonal festivals, and everyday rituals that define life in Italy’s most authentic region. With this book, you’ll experience Puglia through moments, not just monuments. With over 100 festivals woven into the seasons, this guide ensures that no matter when you travel, you’ll find yourself in the heart of a celebration. Planning your Italian dream vacation? Discover Puglia, Italy’s sun-drenched heel where azure waters...

Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She's desperate to make it onto her school's cricket team because she'll get to play her favorite sport and use the cricket matches to distract Daddy from dating. But when Coach Broomes announces that girls can't try out for the team, the frustrated Josephine cuts into a powerful silk cotton tree and accidentally summons a bigger problem into her life.

Could an entire family for generations have been cursed? Can a house really be haunted? HOUSE OF TRAGEDY by award-winning author and journalist Ken H. Fortenberry tackles and attempts to separate fact from fiction in this engaging and well-researched book about the historic, deadly, and maybe even haunted Seaside Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina, where John McConkey was brutally murdered in 1915. McConkey wasn't the first of his family to die at Seaside. It is also where one of his sisters burned to death, another may have committed suicide, and a brother also mysteriously died. ...

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in this highly colourful, joyous, and award-winning adventure.

Quince mil años antes de que los Europeos pisarán las Américas, la gente ya se había propagado de punta a punta y de costa a costa. Como todos los humanos, estos Nativos Americanos buscaban comprender su lugar en el universo, la naturaleza de su relación con lo divino, y el origen del mundo en el que habían emergido sus antepasados.Las respuestas se encuentran en sus historias sagradas.

Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories. This collection of those stories - from nations and cultures across two continents, what the Aztecs called the Sea-Ringed World, from the edge of Argentina all the way up to Alaska - is a treasure.