Papua New Guinea Atlas: A Nation in Transition by David King, Stephen Ranck(eds.)
$17.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. General study and thematic atlas of Papua New Guinea - history, influence of colonialism, population dynamics, education, health, language, land tenure, rural area human settlement, land utilization, agriculture (subsistence farming, cash crops), forestry, fishing, mineral resources, indust ...Show more
Taim Bilong Masta: The Australian involvement with Papua New Guinea by Hank Nelson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First published in 1982 and based on the 24-part ABC Radio series produced by Tim Bowden, this well-illustrated book tells the stories of the Australians who went to Papua and New Guinea to live, rule, convert and mine.
Cousteau's Papua New Guinea by J. M. Cousteau
$17.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. In 1988, as one of the first in a new series of expeditions called "Rediscovery of the World,", The Cousteau Society set out to explore the aquatic and land environments and cultures of the eastern half of Papua New Guinea. In addition to the vivid narrative account of the day to day events ...Show more
Kilenge Life and Art: A Look at a New Guinea People by Philip John Crosskey Dark
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First impressions of the Kilenge, a group of some 1000 people living in the western tip of the island of New Britain. 246 illustrations with introduction to New Guinea and the Kilenge.
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.
Mountains in the Clouds
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. First edition. "Olaf Ruhen, author of Mountains in the Clouds, is well qualified to write on Papua and Australian New Guinea. He has travelled through some of the remotest areas of this region - on one expedition he sailed seven hundred miles up the Sepik and met tribes who did not know th ...Show more
A Village in New Guinea: The Reality of Life with VSO by Ted Lawson
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. One year as a volunteer in the isolated village of Boze, on the river in Papua New Guinea, Ted Lawson shows an enormous gap has been created between those who have been educated and those who have been left behind in the jungle.
Doctor in Papua by Berkeley Vaughan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Missionary Doctor on Kwato Island, China Strait, Papua New Guinea. June 1935 to the evacuation of Samarai in 1942.
New Guinea: Problems and Prospects by Peter Hastings
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Second edition. “New Guinea: Problems and Prospects is a survey of Papua New Guinea’s geography, people, culture, history, economy and political development up to the eve of self-government and independence, and of its future relations with Australia and its neighbours. In this second edit ...Show more
Marriage in Papua New Guinea: Results of a research project
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. A monograph companied to the Law Reform Commission's Occasional Paper No. 18, Marriage and Domestic Violence in Rural Papua New Guinea. Based on research carried out in 1982.
Community Development in Western Samoa by Hans Gullestrup
$18.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Survey of a Project Form and its Implementation. Social Studies in Oceania and South East Asia 1. It consists partly of a case study of two concrete development projects in Western Samoa, partly of the initial steps towards the formation of a hypothesis in respect of the interplay between c ...Show more
Melanesian Politics by Stael Blong Vanuatu
$65.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Western Pacific Vanuatu's population of 150,000 scattered over 80 islands has over 100 local languages, a record for culturally diverse countries per capita, overlaid by 70 years of joint colonial rule by Great Britain and France. The resulting rivalries are documented here.