Art of the Pacific by Brian Brake (Photographer); James McNeish; D. R. Simmons (Commentaries by)

$57.50 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

Gems from the Coral Islands by Rev. William Gill

$145.00 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

In Quest of Coolies by James L.A. Hope

$250.00 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

Man's Conquest of the Pacific - The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania by Peter Bellwood

$60.00 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia by Diana Preston

$37.99 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3, 618 miles has become the stuff of legend. But few realize that Bligh's escape across the seas was not the only open-boat journey in that era of British exploration and colonization. Indeed, 9 convicts from the Australian penal colony, led by Mary Bryant, also traveled 3,250 miles across the open ocean and some uncharted seas to land at the same port Bligh had reached only months before. In this meticulously researched dual narrative of survival, acclaimed historian Diana Preston provides the background and context to explain the thrilling open-boat voyages each party survived and the Pacific Island nations each encountered on their journey to safety. Through this deep-dive, readers come to understand the Pacific Islands as they were and as they were perceived, and how these seemingly utopian lands became a place where mutineers, convicts, and eventually the natives themselves, were chained. ...Show more

Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor by Rev. Thos. Boyles Murray

$145.00 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

Polynesia by George French Angas

$37.50 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

Polynesia and New Zealand by Right Rev. M. Russell

$175.00 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

The Discoery of the Pacific Islands by Andrew Sharp

$37.50 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

Viliami of the Friendly Islands by Ans Westra

$32.50 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands by I.C. Campbell

$39.95 NZD

Category: Pacific Islands

The Pacific Islands remain for most people a region of obscurity or puzzlement. The attention of news media is attracted by untypical events such as political violence that contradict the peaceful tourist image of sun, sea and smiling faces. Journalists, travellers, business people and the general publi c have few paths to access specialised knowledge about the complex and changing 'neighbourhood' to New Zealand's north.For many years Ian Campbell's History of the Pacific Islands has served this purpose, and now after a tumultuous decade in the Pacific, it has been completely revised, largely rewritten and expanded to bring the story of the Pacific Islands up to the present. It offers a concise, straightforward narrative in a clear, readable style, spanning the entire subject from the first settlement by Pacific Islanders through the centuries of European contact, cultural influence and colonialism, to the coming of independence and the developments since then. Dr Campbell eschews the contemporary fashion for 'post-modern' or 'cultural studies' approaches, and for the jargon of the social sciences. This book has not been written for fellow academics but for the many people who want to know 'what happened'. Ian Campbell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, and draws on a lifetime of personal knowledge, academic research and teaching in, as well as about, the Pacific Islands. ...Show more