A Painter in Fiji by Douglas Badcock
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Impressions of Fiji, conveying the atmosphere of cane fields, village markets, fish drive, coral beaches and shimmering bays. 16 colour plates and many black and white drawings with an introduction by the artist.
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.
Another Image Papua New Guinea by David Bailey
$75.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Rare. Bailey visited Papua New Guinea for the first time in 1974 and encountered members of its native population, who live deep in the jungle, cut off from modernity. The b/w and color photographs featured in this book provide a close-up view of a civilization untouched by modernity and an ...Show more
Art of the Pacific by Brian Brake (Photographer); James McNeish; D. R. Simmons (Commentaries by)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Photographs by Brian Brake, Conversations by James McNeish, with commentary by David Simmons
Arts of the Pacific Islands (A Perspective Book) by Anne D'Alleva
$42.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
To the Westerner what culture seems more mysterious or exotic than Tahiti or Fiji? Yet, most of us know little about the arts and cultures of these islands. Mingling a deep appreciation for the beauty and variety of arts--sculpture, paintings, textiles, dance, jewelry, and architecture--found in these f ...Show more
Australia in New Guinea by L. P. Mair
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Second edition in 1970. First published in 1948, this book soon became the standard work on Australian administration in New Guinea. This entirely revised edition covers the period from the annexation of Papua up to the present situation in the now- combined Territories of Papua and New Gui ...Show more
Big-Men and Business: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands by Ben R. Finney
$22.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. High in the New Guinea mountains a sociological drama of unique design has been unfolding since the early 1930s. At that time the first of the Europeans who would take part in the areas development trekked into the remote highlands. These early gold prospectors, patrol officers, and mission ...Show more
Blood is Their Argument: Warfare Among the Mae Enga Tribesmen of the New Guinea Highlands by Mervyn J. Meggitt
$22.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. The scarcity of arable land in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea has created fierce competition among the Mae Enga for territorial control. Blood Is Their Argument studies the Mae Enga and their continuous struggle to survive and sustain both power and prestige.
Colonial Era Cemetery of Norfolk Island by R. Nixon Dalkin
$21.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Life and death in one of the harshest penal colonies ever administered by Britain is recorded on tombstones of the early cemetery of Norfolk Island. Here they are, the tombstone inscriptions and the hangman's rope, movingly recorded by a former Administrator of Norfolk Island who has a special interest ...Show more
Colourful Papua New Guinea by James Sinclair
$21.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Papua New Guinea is a colorful land. Ever-changing tropical skies, rich vegetation, a host of wonderful plant and animal life and a delightfully friendly people will provide the visitor with variety and abundance available rarely in the modern world. This book is a wonderful introduction wi ...Show more