The Frangipani is Dead. Contemporary Pacific Art In New Zealand by Karen Stevenson. This book offers a contextual understanding of the contemporary Pacific art movement in New Zealand and includes 88 full colour plates of Pacific art.
Paperback. 228 pages. NEW.
In Search of Paradise. Artists and Writers in the Colonial South Pacific by Graeme Lay. In this lavishly illustrated book, the author presents the lives of some of the finest artists and writers to have been inspired by the South Pacific. It tells the story of their visual and litery journeys, covering two hundred years of European contact with the islands and the people who inhabited them.
A Godwit Book. Random House NZ. Hardback. 256 pages. NEW.
The French Pacific Islands , French Polynesia and New Caledonia . Discusses the problems these territories will face as they move from quasi-colonial status to independence. Berkeley, London, Los Angles, University of California Press, 1971.
Hardback with dust-jacket, 24 cm, 539 pages. SECONDHAND
The Genus Gouldia (Rubiaceae), Berenice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 147. Honolulu , the Museum, 1937.
Card covers, illustrated, 25.5 cm, 85 pages. SECONDHAND
Flowering Plants of Samoa , II. Berenice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 154. Honolulu , the Museum, 1938.
Card covers, illustrated, 25.5 cm, 81 pages. SECONDHAND
Anthropology in the South Seas, Essays presented to H.D. Skinner. New Plymouth (N.Z.), Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd, 1959.
Hardback with dust-jacket, illustrated, 25.5 cm, 267 pages. SECONDHAND
A History of Fiji , Volume One. Suva , Government Press, (1946) 1974 reprint.
Hardback with decorative worn dust-jacket, illustrated, maps, photographs, 25.5 cm, 278 pages. SECONDHAND
This book offers a concise straightforward historical narrative in a clear readable style, spanning the entire subject from the first settlement by Polynesians thhrough the centuries of European contact, cultural influence and colonialism, to independence and developments since then. Softback. 360 pages. NEW.
Body Trade, Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, Otago University Press, 2001. Essays on the ‘traffic’ in human bodies in the Pacific from the 18th century until today. International scholars examine the ‘captive body’ as it is represented in a range of media from Captain Cook’s journals and Melville’s novels to popular culture and film. This book , exposes the myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenouse people in fairs and circuses, Australia’s stolen generations, the ‘comfort’ women and the making of the exotic/erotic body.
Softback, Illustated, 320 pages. NEW
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