Pacific
The People of Lake Kutubu and Kikori. Changing Meanings of Daily Life.
Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. (circa 1993). Map, photographic illustrations, ix + [3] + 81 + [3]pp, bibliography, 28 x 21cm, very good paperback. This book offers a picture of daily life of people live near Lake Kutubu during 1991 and 1992 and how the oil project..... More
Literature Review and Synthesis of Information on Pacific Island Ecosystems.
Washington, D.C. Coastal Ecosystems Project, Fish and Wildlife Service. 1979. Maps, xiii + 338pp, references, 27.6 x 21.5cm. A prior owner's name neatly inked on front cover, light browning to edges of paperback covers, two staples upper edge front cover, otherwise a very good copy. Collection of natural resource literature..... More
Lost Paradise. The Exploration of the Pacific.
London. Century Hutchinson. 1987. Maps, colour & black and white photographic illustrations, 248pp, appendices, bibliography, index, a good copy in little worn dustjacket with small closed tear upper cover, quarto. Describes the physical creation of the Pacific, and suggests how the ocean's multitude of islands may have been first populated..... More
Lost Paradise. The Exploration of the Pacific.
Topsfield. Salem House. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations, 248pp, appendix, bibliography, index, 26.7 x 19.7cm. A very good hardback copy in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 171923. More
A Voyage Round the World, From 1806 to 1812; in Which Japan, Kamschatka, The Aleutian Islands, and The Sandwich Islands Were Visited...... With An Account of the Present State of the Sandwich Islands, and A Vocabulary of Their Language.
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1967, Endpaper maps, 220pp, A Vocabulary of the Hawaiian Islands, good copy in dustjacket. "Archibald Campbell, an English seamen sailing with the Russian American Company from 1806 to 1812, spent over a year convalescing in the Hawaiian Ialsns. He resided with King Kamehameha for three..... More
Enga Foundations for Development.
Australia. University of New England. 1982. Maps, xii + 381 pages, bibliography, appendices, prior owner's signature on front free endpaper, paperback, light wear extremities, some sellotape on spine, a good clean copy. Volume 3 of Enga yaaka lasemana (the Enga Provincial Development Programme 1982-85). At the time of publication this..... More
Enga Foundations for Development.
Armidale. University of New England. 1982. Maps, xii + 381 pages, bibliography, appendices, inscription front free endpaper, paperback, light wear extremities, a good clean copy. Volume 3 of Enga yaaka lasemana (the Enga Provincial Development Programme 1982-85). At the time of publication this was the first basic description of Enga..... More
Twenty Years of Pacific Linguistics. An Index of Contributions to Pacific Linguistic Studies 1961-1981.
Canberra. Department of Linguistics. Australian National University. 1981. vi + 161pp, little sunned on spine, very good in wrappers, square quarto. Pacific Linguistics Series D - No. 40. Series D consists of special publications ( bulletins, archival materials, textbooks, maps, etc.) The indices are organised by language, topic, region, and..... More
Pacific Islands Year Book. Fourteenth Edition.
Sydney. Pacific Publications. 1981. 14th edition. Maps, 559pp, index, hardback. Neat signature of a prior owner front free endpaper. When referring to this item please quote stockid 94833. More
A Dictionary of the Motu Language of Papua.
Sydney. A. H. Pettifer. (N.D. ). Second Edition. 158pp, opening between gatherings in one place, prior owner's stamp and London Missionary Society Port Moresby stamp endpapers, covers rubbed and worn, a sound secondhand hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179563. More
Day That I Have Loved. Percy Chatterton's Papua.
Sydney. Pacific Publications. 1974. Endpaper maps, illustrations by Bert Brown, 131pp, index, some staining dustjacket, rubbing on extremities, a good hardback copy. Account of life in Papua where the author spent 50 years as a missionary, teacher and politician. When referring to this item please quote stockid 172722... More
Legacy. A Portrait of the Young Men and Women of Kamehameha Schools 1887-1987.
Honolulu. Kamehameha Schools Press. 1987. Profuse colour and monochrome photographic illustrations, 150pp, water stain to lower edge, leaves otherwise clean and sound, water damage to covers, causing covers to lift and dustjacket to adhere to covers, large quarto. A photographic portrayal of the schools established by Princess Pauahi near Honolulu..... More
Pathways to Independence. Story of Official and Family life in Papua New Guinea 1951- 1975.
Perth. Artlook Books. 1983. Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, 366pp, glossary, paperback, very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 149474. More
Grass Roots to Independence and Beyond. The Contribution by Women in Papua New Guinea 1951-1991.
Claremont. Dame Rachel Cleland. 1996. First Edition. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 406pp, notes, glossary, index, prior owner's name and author inscription preliminary leaves, spine sunned, a good paperback copy. An entertaining insight into the life and times of women in developing territory on Australia's doorstep. When..... More
Pathways to Independence. Story of Official and Family life in Papua New Guinea From 1951 to 1975.
Western Australia. Dame Rachel Cleland. 1985. Second Edition. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 370pp, glossary, index, dustjacket little worn and marked with sunned spine, upper edge trifle foxed, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178913. More
Hands Across the Pacific. A Voyage of Discovery From Australia to the Hawaiian Islands and Canada, April to June 1950.
Sydney. Angus & Robertson. 1951. Endpaper maps, maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 304pp, bibliography, inscription prior owner front free endpaper, edges little foxed, otherwise a sound copy in cloth covered boards. When referring to this item please quote stockid 149065. More
Islands of the South.
New York. Pica Press. 1974. Maps, black and white photographic plates, 200pp, appendices, bibliography, index, price clipped dustjacket lightly sunned, cloth covers flecked, still a sound secondhand copy. Coates reverses the standard view that Pacific Islands are cultural and genetic offshoots of the Orient, presenting the alternative evidence of Pacific..... More
Big Men and Cargo Cults.
Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1970. Black and white line illustrations, xxiv + 187pp, bibliography, index, some ink annotations, paper along hinges opening, worn and soiled dustjacket. Reading copy only. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176272. More
Fiji. The Call of the Islands.
Sydney. Waite & Bull. c 1930s. 4th Edition, 2nd Impression. Striking colour cover image of a Fijian woman with an hibiscus flower in her hair. Black, & white plates, softcover, spine has been neatly repaired with archival tape, staples rusting, contents sound and clean. 30.5 x 23.3cm. Issued by the..... More
Report of a Commission of Inquiry into Local Government and other Matters in the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain. 29th September to 17th October, 1969.
Port Moresby. Territory of Papua and New Guinea. 1969. 46pp + 5pp + 10pp, appendices, final 15 pages lower corner creased, covers marked, staples rusted staining the wrappers, still a sound copy. 25.6 x 20.5cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179559. More
Education, employment and migration in Papua New Guinea.
Canberra. Australian National University. 1976. xi + 248pp, appendices, bibliography, spine sunned, good copy in little worn wrappers. Monograph No. 3, Development Studies Centre. When referring to this item please quote stockid 149473. More
National Education Strategy. Papua New Guinea Education Plan Review and Proposals.
Boroko. Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research. 1979. First Edition. Black and white line drawings, xix + 165pp, bibliography, appendices, shelf wear, lower cover corner creased along lower edge, edges trifle browned, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 177317. More
Land and Power in Hawaii. The Democratic Years.
Honolulu. Benchmark Books. 1985. Tables, x + 518pp, notes, index, sunned dustjacket protected, pale foxing edges and endpapers, otherwise internally very sound and clean, good copy. "This book is a full-length study of land and politics in Hawaii in the Democratic years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s." Author's note..... More
A Bibliography of Pacific Island Theses and Dissertations.
Australia. Australian National University. 1983. xii + 520pp, indices, a good copy in little worn paperback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 149056. More