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The Happy Isles of Oceania

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

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

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

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

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

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

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... Read more about this item
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€27.99
Isles of the frigate bird

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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";... Read more about this item
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€88.63
Not Quite Extinct: Melanesian bark cloth (&#39;tapa&#39;) from western So lomon Islands

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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