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“The only place among the southern islands where a ship can put in and get what it wants in comfort is where the Gospel has been sent to. For my part, I don't know and I don't care what the Gospel does to them, but I know that when any o' the islands chance to get it, trade goes smooth and easy.”

Religion Trade Islands Gospel Polynesians Polynesia Bloody Bill Christian Mission

Book:The Coral Island

Source: The Coral Island

“The case of Ballantyne's The Coral Island is instructive, for the author had never seen a coral island, or, indeed, a palm tree, or a coconut, and his novel is a construction out of his reading of other books, some of which are pillaged to the point of plagarism. The textual bricolage is matched by the ironic presentation of the imperial values which it is generally assumed the book exists to promote: a pirate by the name of 'Bloody Bill' is allowed to articulate how useful religion is to the advancement of trade (and plunder).”

Religion Trade Novel Writing Plunder Palm Trees Polynesia Bloody Bill Imperial Values Rm Ballantyne The Coral Island

Book:The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

Source: The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

“There is a reason the remote Pacific was the last place on Earth to be settled by humans: it was the most difficult, more daunting even than the deserts or the ice.”

Humanity Discovery Exploration Pacific Settlement Remoteness Polynesia

Book:Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Source: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

“I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.”

People Men Two Today Together Political United Generations Teaching Information Sticks Boundaries Bridges Imaginary Up To You Single People Polynesia

Author:Mau Piailug

“It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the world and he started reading a lot of mythology, which most people are not that familiar with.”

People World Ideas Stories Reading South Mythology Familiar Pacific Polynesia

Author:Ron Clements

“We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.”

World Age Draws Maps Centre Polynesia

Author:Joe Quirk

“In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.”

World Has Beens Middle Couple Dancing Dance Including Focused East Middle East Linked Violation Unthinkable Propriety North Africa Polynesia

Book:Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement

Source: Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement

“I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.”

I Can Ends Decision Struggle Forever Tomorrow Eternal Idiot Live Forever Polynesia

Author:Paul Gauguin