[bksvol-discuss] Re: Islands in the Pacific

I assume the book was not Melville as most of his are in the collection so what book were you scanning that taught you about breadfruit and frangipani etc.?

Amy
omst but ignorant

----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:10 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Islands in the Pacific


Hi Brian,

As I said, it was basically a good scan. The 15 pages
were garbage. I thought when I deleted them I'd get to
the real ones--that they'd be extras, but they
weren't--smile. But re-scanning was no problem, and I
found out that my new OCR doesn't put the ends-of-line
breaks it, so that was a good thing.

Interesting that you work with and travel to the
Pacific Island territories. What do you do? Are you
with the government? Are the conditions still as bad
as in the book? Of course, when Evans went, I guess it
was the rainy season, because there was a lot of rain
Anyway, I found out what breadfruit and frangipani and
copra (and how to make it and what it's used for) and
pandanus are, as well as a lot of other things. smile

Maybe you should write a book about the current state
of the various islands. A friend's daughter went to
Vanuatu for the Peace Corps and hated it. I think she
left early.

Cindy
--- Brian Miller <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Cindy,

It was me who scanned it, and I've been meaning to
get back to this book
and clean it up -- I don't remember 15 pages
missing, though -- zoinks! What
a bummer.

I loved this book, too, so I will give it some
attention in the very near
future.

Another bookshare volume you might like is, The Sex
Lives of Cannibals,
about a couple who move to Tarawa (Kiribas) in the
Pacific, with similar
eye-openning results.

Another book I have that I plan to submit is "The
Edge of Paradise" about a
a guy who servedin the Peace Corp in Micronesia, and
then went back to work
there for many years.  It's a fabulous book.

In my day job I work with the Pacific island
territories all the time, and
I've traveled to many of these locations.  It's
fascinating and sad, as you
described.

Brian Miller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:34 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Transit of Venus
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> More than a travel memoir, Transit of Venus is an
> interesting and readable history of the South Seas
> nations, written with humor.
>    Toward the end of the book, the author visits
the
> Marshall Islands and Bikini atoll and describes
the
> messy and unsanitary conditions the natives live
> under, having been moved from their homes by the
> American military. Of course, the book was written
in
> 1992. Hopefully our government has improved the
living
> conditions since then.
>
> After reading this book, I've lost all desire ever
to
> go to the South Pacific. New Caledonia,
Fiji,Vanuau,
> etc. don't sound the least bit beautiful or
romantic,
> although when you see the tourist-beckoning sites
> online the beaches, etc. look beautiful. Maybe the
> islands' towns and beaches have been cleaned up
and
> there are more things to do than the author found.
>
> If you're anything like me, your vocabulary will
> increase by reading this book. There were a lot of
> words I didn't know, some deriving from a history
I
> didn't know enough about, some being English or
> Australian words.  Fortunately, it's quick and
easy to
> look them up in google while reading the book.
smile I
> love volunteering for bookshare--I have learned so
> much from different books, and about the existence
and
> genre and quality of different authors, and about
the
> various capabilities of Word.--and I thought I was
> well-educated before. smile
>
> This was a good scan except for the end-of-line
breaks
> (and missing 15 pages in the middle, by which time
it
> was too late to reject. smile)  I don't know who
> scanned it and I don't know if anything can be
done
> about that except to pre-validate and get rid of
them.
> I know my scans used to have the same thing, but I
> always pre-validated before submitting.  I think
it
> may be the OCR. Now, because I have Fine Reader 5,
I'm
> not getting those end-of-line breaks.
>
> Cindy
>
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