{"id":3492,"date":"2024-02-27T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2024-03-30T09:06:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T09:06:50","slug":"3492-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/3492-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating history of a Pacific Islander who traveled to Alaska in 1815 with a German poet\/botanist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is just to let you know there’s a whole long interesting story<\/a> about these people on my other blog<\/a> which is on the environment (this one’s for pictures, art and travel). The short version is that 1815 a German Romantic poet and scientist (left) was on an around-the-world expedition and befriended a Pacific Islander (right) who joined the voyage to Alaska. Their many discoveries included the life-cycle of strange jelly-like sea creatures who live in chains (middle), which was strongly disuputed but later found to be correct. The poet-scientist’s book about the journey anticipated antiracism in its respectful and thoughtful accounts of people in the Americas and Pacific\u00a0and today he’s a semi-big deal in Alaska and Hawaii, where he appears on this mural which was in a bank until recently. The article is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is just to let you know there’s a whole long interesting story about these people on my other blog which is on the environment (this one’s for pictures, art and travel). The short version is that 1815 a German Romantic poet and scientist (left) was on an around-the-world expedition and befriended a Pacific Islander … <\/p>\n

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