Langdon, Robert
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Robert Langdon
The lost caravel by Robert Langdon (
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10
editions published
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1975
in
English
and held by
173
libraries
worldwide
The language of Easter Island : its development and eastern Polynesian relationships by Robert Langdon (
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8
editions published
in
1983
in
English
and held by
172
libraries
worldwide
The lost caravel re-explored by Robert Langdon (
Book
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10
editions published
in
1988
in
English
and held by
106
libraries
worldwide
"It is the year 1526. The four ships of the Loaisa expedition have just entered the Pacific from the Strait of Magellan on their way to the East Indies for a cargo of spices. A storm blows up. The ships are separated. One, the caravel San Lesmes with 50 or so men on board is never seen again ... The new book traces the crew of the San Lesmes and their descendants to various atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago, to the Society and Austral Islands -- even to distant Easter Island and New Zealand. It argues that the last prehistoric settlement of New Zealand was made when some of the San lesmes crew came upon the North Island in trying to return to Spain from the vicinity of Tahiti by sailing along the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope. It claims that many Maori of today are descended from them. The book tells also how a number of present-day Easter islanders with no known non-Easter Island ancestors have been found to be carriers of certain genes that are peculiar to Europeans and especially common among Basques. In a nutshell, The Lost Caravel Re-explored throws unexpected new light on the prehistory of several widely separated Polynesian islands and challenges many long held views on that subject ..."--Back cover
American whalers and traders in the Pacific : a guide to records on microfilm by Robert Langdon (
Book
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3
editions published
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1978
in
English
and held by
84
libraries
worldwide
Island of love by Robert Langdon (
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7
editions published
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1959
and
1960
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English
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71
libraries
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Kon-Tiki revisited by Robert Langdon (
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5
editions published
between
2007
and
2009
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English
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68
libraries
worldwide
In 1526, ships of a Spanish expedition entered the Pacific from the Straits of Magellan. The San Lesmes, a caravel of eighty tonnes with a crew of fifty-three, was separated from the fleet by a storm and never seen again. Four centuries later, in 1929, four iron cannons were found on the reef of the Amanu atoll, French Polynesia. The find created little interest until 1975, when Robert Langdon argues in The lost caravel that the cannons were from the San Lesmes, the crew had survived and intermarried, and that vital aspects of the wider development of Pacific Island communities needed to be readdressed. In Kon-Tiki revisited Langdon makes his final outstanding contribution to our knowledge of Polynesian origins
Tahiti and the Society Islands : shipping arrivals and departures, 1767 to 1852 by Rhys Richards (
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4
editions published
in
2008
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English
and held by
32
libraries
worldwide
The P.M.B. book of Pacific indexes
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Book
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1
edition published
in
1988
in
English
and held by
23
libraries
worldwide
The Catholic Church in the Western Pacific : a guide to records on microfilm
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Book
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1
edition published
in
1986
in
English
and held by
22
libraries
worldwide
An Index to Quarterly jottings from the New Hebrides, 1893-1966 (nos. 1-284)
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Book
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1
edition published
in
1988
in
English
and held by
20
libraries
worldwide
It's time for another one : folk songs from the south coast of Newfoundland, Ramea and Grole
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Sound Recording
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2
editions published
in
2005
in
English
and held by
16
libraries
worldwide
Cumulative index to the Pacific Islands monthly, volumes 16 to 25 (August, 1945 to July, 1955) by Margaret Woodhouse (
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1
edition published
in
1984
in
English
and held by
15
libraries
worldwide
Cumulative index to the Pacific Islands monthly, volumes 1 to 15 (August, 1930 to July, 1945) by Margaret Woodhouse (
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1
edition published
in
1968
in
English
and held by
12
libraries
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The Spanish language and culture in New Zealand, Australia
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Book
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1
edition published
in
1991
in
English
and held by
4
libraries
worldwide
Correspondence re his book, the lost caravel, 1986-1998 by Robert Langdon (
Archival Material
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1
edition published
in
2004
in
English
and held by
4
libraries
worldwide
The seventh circle : my seven years of hell in Afghanistan's most notorious prison by Robert Langdon (
Sound Recording
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1
edition published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
1
library
worldwide
'I was arrested on Thursday 9th July 2009. On Wednesday I'd quit my job, killed a man and set his body on fire. I was sentenced to death. I'm not a good man, but I am an honest one. This is my story.' Former soldier Rob Langdon was working as a security contractor in Afghanistan when he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in a case that would have been ruled a clear miscarriage of justice in the British legal system. His sentence was commuted to 20 years in jail, and he served his time in Kabul's most notorious prison, Pul-e-Charkhi, described as the world's worst place to be a westerner. Rob was there for seven years, the longest sentence served by a westerner since the fall of the Taliban, and every one of those 2,500 days was an act of extraordinary survival in a jail filled with Afghanistan's most dangerous extremists and murderers. In 2016 Robert was pardoned and returned to Australia
The seventh circle : surviving seven years in Afghanistan's most notorious prison by Robert Langdon (
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1
edition published
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2017
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English
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Langton, Robert Adrian, 1924-2003 Robert Adrian Langdon Australian scholar
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