Tungaru Traditions - Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands by Arthur F. Grimble; H. E. Maude (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Pacific Islands Monographs
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel B. Emerson
$17.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
The "hula" -- the dance, with its songs and ceremonies -- stood for very much to the ancient Hawaiian; it was to him in place of our concert-hall and lecture-room, our opera and theater, and thus became one of his chief means of social enjoyment. Besides this it kept the communal imagination in living t ...Show more
Up From South: A Prospector in New Guinea 1931-1937 by Jack O'Neill, James Sinclair(ed.)
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The author tells of prospecting for gold in New Guinea in the 1930s. He prospected at Edie Creek, Wau and Waria and spent much of time on Nauti Creek on the very edge of the forbidden territory of the Kukukuku, a tribe with a bloody history and well-earned reputation for ferocity. Jack O'N ...Show more
Upon a Stone Altar - A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 by David Hanlon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Pacific Islands Monograph Series No.3 | Reading Level: very good
A history of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890.
Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture in Honour of Janet M. Davidson by Atholl Anderson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious.' Hence the title of this book on Pacific material culture, past and present, with broad themes of origins, the movement of peoples and the dev ...Show more
Visions & Realities France in the Pacific 1695-1995 by John Dunmore
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Visions of the Pacific by David Arnell and Lisette Wolk (Editors)
$95.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
War and Succession in Mangala: From Mamae's Texts by Michael P.J. Reilly
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
This is a political history of an island in the southern Cook Islands, from its social foundations until the advent of Christianity in the 1820s, as described by the 19th century tribal historian Mamae. Michael Reilly studied Maori and History at Victoria University of Wellington, and Pacific History at ...Show more
We Lived with Headhunters by Ben Butcher
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First edition.True story of life in Papua.
Wealth of the Solomons - A History of a Pacific Archipelago by Judith A Bennett
$42.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 3 | Reading Level: very good
Webb's Catalogue: Oceanic and African Arts 30 March 2011
$20.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography