Kodoku: Sailing Alone Across the Pacific

Kenichi Horie

Charles E.Tuttle Company

Great for comparing to myths and legends of other Polynesian islands and other parts of the world.

THE LEGENDS AND MYTHS OF HAWAII

David Kalakaua

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. New Impression, signed by the author. Mylar protected unclipped d/w. A good sound copy.

Decorative wrought ironwork in Great Britain

LISTER, Raymond

Collecting Toy Soldiers

NICOLLIER, Jean

Here for the first time is a comprehensive and eminently readable history of this fateful island, presenting the full sweep of its engrossing history. The eminently qualified authors of this work have spent years of studious research in gathering and working over the voluminous source material upon which the book is based. Though comprehensive and scholarly, it is neither exhaustive nor exhausting. Its presentation is factual, well-balanced and temperate, succinctly written in an easy style certain to win the appreciation of students using it as a textbook as well as the casual reader enjoying this excursion into a small but vital far-away land about which little is generally known. Paul Carano, at the time of publication a member of the faculty at the College of Guam, had been intensely interested in the collection of basic source material on the island and in the preparation of a comprehensive history of Guam ever since he first started teaching there in 1947. His interest increased to the point where he finally spent two uninterrupted years and considerable personal funds in completing the research and in working over his vast accumulation of pertinent and frequently difficult-to-procure source material. Though anxious at first to complete the understanding himself, he was most appreciative of the indispensable and extensive cooperation of Pedro C. Sanchez in bringing this panoramic project to its successful completion. Dr. Sanchez, who travelled extensively throughout Southeast Asia and the North American continent, was a native Guamanian, the son of an outstanding Guamanian educator, and himself a former President of the College of Guam as well as a former Commissioner of Education in the Virgin Islands. At the time of publication he was serving as Associate Director of the Peace Corps in the Philippines.

A Complete History of Guam

Carano, Paul & Sanchez, Pedro, C.

This book is designed for the amateur artist who is eager to find a new outlet for his talents as well as for the one who has already discovered the enchanting world of Japanese ink-painting. It is, quite frankly, a copybook, and it does not pretend to be anything else. The paintings are the work of Shutei Ota, an artist who has had a long career of introducing Japanese ink-painting to Westerners. Ota teaches by showing, and by holding the hands of her students - beginning immediately with strokes and foregoing preliminary sketches. 'Paint Now' is her philosophy. She likes to think of her paintings as written compositions. Each stroke is a sentence, and each sentence builds up to a complete message or picture. In this books, examples graded from easy to difficult, are provided. Westerners will no doubt make practical use of the art to create place and greeting cards. This study of Japanese ink painting will lead to better understanding of the discipline of Asian arts

Copybook for Japanese Ink Painting

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Court Dishes of China: The Cuisine of the Ch'ing Dynasty

Chung, Su (Lucille Davis)

When Zen Buddhism crossed from China to Japan in the twelfth century, it entered a phase of development that was not only to inspire a magnificent range of artistic achievement but also to exert a tremendous influence upon Japanese life itself and, eventually, to bring to the attention of the West a religious philosophy both unique and challenging in its power. 'Yet,' as one of the contributors to A First Zen Reader expresses it, 'If asked what Zen is, to reply is very difficult.' It is the purpose of this anthology to suggest an approach to such a reply.

First Zen Reader

The Folk Arts of Japan

Hugo, Münsterberg

Japan underwent tumultuous changes in the eighteenth century. The merchant class was rising in power, and the privileges of the professional warriors, or "samurai", were disappearing. The 47 Ronin Story is the classic story of Lord Asano of Ako and one of the bloodiest vendettas in Japan's feudal history. In 1701 in Edo, Japan, Lord Asano of Ako lashed out at a corrupt court official and set in motion a chain of events that shocked the country and brought the Shogun himself to a legal and moral impasse. When it was over, there emerged the most unlikely set of heroes-the forty-seven ronin, or "ex-samurai", of Ako.

The Forty-Seven Ronin Story

Literature & Fiction

Allyn, John

United States

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