Last Days In New Guinea by Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton
$22.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. First Last Days In New Guinea is a memoir written by Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton, first published in 1922. The book documents Monckton's experiences as a colonial officer in the British Empire, serving in the remote and wild region of Papua New Guinea during the early 20th century.Mon ...Show more
Lee Boo of Belau - A Prince in London by Daniel J. Peacock
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: South Sea Bks.
This is the story of the adventures of a Pacific island prince, Lee Boo, one of the first of the "noble savages" to be feted by London society. Within six months of his arrival in England he fell victim to small pox and died, far from his island home. How he came to spend his last days in London beside ...Show more
Lost Paradise - The Exploration of the Pacific by Ian Cameron
$21.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
The European seamen who explored the Pacific made some of the longest and most hazardous voyages in history. They endured squalor, brutality, hunger and thirst and an appalling death rate. However, when they reached the islands of the central Pacific they were made welcome by people who offered them fo ...Show more
Man's Conquest of the Pacific - The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania by Peter Bellwood
$60.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
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.
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.
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
Na Kkai Taku: Taku's Musical Fables (Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics, 7) by Richard Moyle
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. This modest anthology of fables represents the first publication in the language of Taku, a Polynesian outlier situated off the east coast of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. The island's small size and remoteness have left it largely untouched by Western influences, and a forty-year-ol ...Show more
Nan'yo - The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 by Mark R. Peattie
$22.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Pacific Islands Monographs
Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points of View by Gregory Bateson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Second edition. Ex-library. "Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tr ...Show more