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R. M. Ballantyne

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

Paperback (Leopold Classic Library Sept. 8, 2016)

About the Book

Sea stories, or nautical fiction, naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre that has as its setting sea or seashore, focusing on the human relationship to the sea. The settings range from merchant ships, liners, naval ships, fishing vessels, and life boats, to sea ports and fishing villages. While the sea stories tradition is mainly British and North American in origins, there are also significant literatures from Japan, France, Scandinavia, and other European countries.

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Oceania and Australasia is a region that mostly comprises of the continent of Australia. It also includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. It is situated in the south east of the Asia Pacific region and is the second smallest continental grouping and the least populated continent. The arrival of European settlers significantly changed the culture in the region.

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Major Indigenous tribes of the Great Lakes region of the Midwest included: the Hurons, Ottawa, Chippewas or Ojibwas, Potawatomis, Winnebago (Ho-chunk), Menominees, Sacs, Neutrals, Fox, and the Miami. Hurons and Chippewas were most numerous. Some tribes, such as Sac, Fox, and Miami, both hunted and farmed. They depended on the open prairies where they engaged in communal hunts for buffalo (bison). Plains tribes occasionally engaged in agriculture, e.g. tobacco and corn. These included: the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Shoshone, Stoney, and Tonkawa. Yankee settlers from New England began to arrive in Ohio prior to 1800, and then spread throughout the northern half of the Midwest. Most began as farmers, but many later moved to urban areas as entrepreneurs and professionals. Since its beginnings in the 1830s, and its development as a livestock and grain transport hub, Chicago grew to dominate the Midwestern metropolis landscape, and still does.

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ISBN
/ 9788124804070
Pages
390
Weight
39.04 oz.
Dimensions
8.5 x 0.88 in.

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