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The Happy Isles of Oceania
by Paul Theroux
Penguin Books. Good. 129 x 198 x 32mm. Paperback. 1992. 732 pages. Cover worn. text tanned<br>Invites readers to join the author on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures expl oring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and tak ing up residence to discover the secrets of these isles. .
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€5.05
The Voices of Eden: A History of Hawaiian Language Studies
by Schütz, Albert J
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1994. Paperback. xx, 512p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good.
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€18.66
Broken Canoe: Conversations and Observations in Micronesia
by Ann Nakano
Australia: University of Queensland. Fair. Hardcover. 1983. 289 pages. ex library .
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€4.49
Fiji, the Land of Promise: Religious - Political - Economic
by Henley, Thomas
Sydney: John Sands, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. photos, 66, (6)p. Blue cloth. 18cm. Page edges foxed.
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€23.32
Stopover
by Bruce Connew, Brij V. Lal
Victoria University Press. Very Good. 23.4 x 15.3 x 3.9 centimetres (0. Hardcover. 2007. 160 pages. <br>Indians first came to Fiji as indentured labourers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d'état in 1987, and three subsequ ent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the coun try in earnest. STOPOVER is a haunting suite of Bruce Connew phot ographs from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vati yaka, ... .
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€6.74
Reach for Paradise
by Andrew Rayner
Maui, Hawaii: companionway press. Very Good. 7 x 0.78 x 10 inches. Paperback. 2013. 376 pages. Corner lightly creased.<br>A song to Pacific islands r ooted in a far-ranging journey, Reach for Paradise is the Pacific addition to the world's fine travel literature. Written as he ga ined deep knowledge of the islands and their peoples, their histo ry and traditions, the influences that have shaped their destiny, ... .
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€6.74
Warabe" Verses Japanese / English translation by Julie Rogers and Hiroko Hayashi
by Kimura, Hiroko
Okinawa / Tokyo: Tokyo Welfare Factory, 1997. 81p., fullpage color reproductions throughout, with b&w site photography and family snapshots, softbound in 10x7 inch color wraps; aside from a bookseller's notes on title page, entirely clean and sound, a near-fine copy. Author's brief little poems are quite good and deep, with no discernable debt to the translator. Paintings to taste. Title page note defines "warabe" as "an old Japanese word meaning children or a child, inferring a feeling of innocence and...
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€27.99
Isles of the frigate bird
by Ronald Syme
Joseph. Very Good. 140 x 220mm. Hardcover. 1975. 235 pages. <br> .
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€6.18
Folklore of the Atayal of Fromosa and the Mountain Tribes of Luzon
by Norbeck, Edward
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950. Staplebound. iv, 44p., staplebound wraps, 6x9 inches. Illustrated with fold-out map. Spine sunned, else very good. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 5.
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€32.65
UBD Business and Street Directory, 6th Edition, 1985: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
by n/a
UBD, 1985-01-01. Paperback. Fair. . FAIR. yellow photo-illustrated wraps, bagged for protection with a stiff backing board, approx. 8.5'' x 11'', large tears to spine and hinges of covers, large creases to covers, heavy handling wear, no known missing pages..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.
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€6.81
Handbook of Asian American/Pacific Islander Mental Health; Volume 1
by Morishima, James K.; Sue, Stanley; Teng, Li Neal; Zane, Nolan W.S.; Cram, Jeffrey R
Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; National Institute of Mental Health, 1979. Paperback. x, 135p., paperback, 8x10.25 inches. Light toning to spine and rear wrap edge, printing errors on pages 3, 41, and 135 have caused small breaks in the text where paper was creased, else very good.
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€27.99
I: The Investigative Reporting Magazine; Volume 1, Number 3, July-September 1995
by Coronel, Sheila, ed
Manila: Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, 1995. Staplebound. 50p., staplebound magazine, 8.5x11 inches. Light handling wear, else very good. Featuring stories on the violent Presidential Anti-Crime Commission, sterilization for women, and schistosomiasis cases in a rural community.
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€23.32
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
by Herdt, Gilbert H., editor, Michael R. Allen, J. Van Baal, Kenneth E. Read, Shirley Lindenbaum et al
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Paperback. lv, 409p., introduction to the paperback edition, maps, editor's preface, bibliography, contributors, index, conclusions, chapter footnotes, figures and tables, very good first printing of the first paperback edition stated in orange pictorial wraps.
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€18.66
The Fiji Experience
by James Siers
Millwood Press. Good. Paperback. 1985. 144 pages. Cover worn<br> .
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€3.93
A Woman of Easter Island. A Man of Easter Island
by [Easter Island] Hogg, Alexander
London: King's Arms, No. 16, Paternoster Row, 1790. Very good condition. Original copper engraved portraits of Easter Island inhabitants, the woman at the left and the man at the right. The woman wears a cloth headdress with a flattened bow at the left side of her head. The man is bearded, and both have the traditional elongated earlobes. From the drawing by William Hodges, the artist on Captain James Cook's Second voyage of exploration (1772-75) in the ships Resolution and Adventure. 13 3/4 x 9";...
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€88.63
Not Quite Extinct: Melanesian bark cloth ('tapa') from western So lomon Islands
by Rhys Richards, Kenneth Roga
Paremata Press. Very Good. 26 cm. Paperback. 2005. 100 pages. <br>Techniques and significances of bark cloth in the western Solomon Islands. .
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€16.84
The Philippines: Public Policy and National Economic Development
by Golay, Frank H
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968. Hardcover. xx, 455p., green boards, 6.5x9.5 inches. Third printing, with new foreword. Light foxing to edges of text block, else very good.
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€15.86
Deuba: A study of a Fijian village (Reprint series)
by W. R Geddes
Institue of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. Good. 19 x 13cm. Paperback. 2000. 99 pages. <br>Deuba: A study of a Fijian village (Reprint series) [paperback] Geddes, W. R [Jan 01, 2000] .
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€17.41
Argonauts of the Western Pacific : An Account of Native Enterpris e and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
by Bronislaw Malinowski
UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Fair. Paperback. 1978. 527 pages. ex library covers edge wear back cover tape removed internally sound .
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€11.79
Shoal of Time a History of the Hawaiian Islands
by Gavan Daws
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.: Univ of Hawaii Pr. Good. Paperback. 1974. 494 pages. .
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€5.05
Polynesian Researches:Hawaii
by William Ellis
Japan: C. E. Tuttle Co. Good. Paperback. 1974. 471 pages. slight corner wear .
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€6.18
Wings Over Samoa : a Polynesian story
by Reginald R. Barnewall, Brian W. Leamy
CopyRight Publishing. Near Fine. 24 x 16cm. Hardcover. 2008. 442 pages. <br>Wings Over Samoa is a Polynesian story - and the g enesis of a South Pacific Island airline which has contributed mo re than any other factor to building the thriving economy of mode rn Samoa. Wings Over Samoa describes the advent of commercial avi ation in Samoa - opening up the tourist industry to this distant island ... .
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€20.78
Island Kingdom: Tonga, Ancient and Modern
by I.C. Campbell
Canterbury University Press. Near Fine. Paperback. 1992. 276pp b/w illus. A clean firmly bound copy .
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€16.84
Captain Cook in Hawaii
by Terence Barrow
Norfolk Island: Island Heritage. Fair. Hardcover. 1978. 202 pages. ex library d/j repairs to spine .
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€8.98
Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines
by Broad, Robin; Cavanaugh, John
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. xvi, 197p., hardcover in dust jacket, 6.25x9.25 inches, very good.
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€11.19