1964. Intrigued by the history of Cook's expeditions, Roderick Cameron retraced the steps of the famous explorer, and, in The Golden Haze, gives a vivid, on-the-spot reconstruction of Captain Cook's
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1957. 1st edition. HARDCOVER. In 1921 Arthur Grimble, leaving his wife and children, returned to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the Pacific, as commissioner with the colonial service.
1956. 1st edition. An account of family and sex life in the Polynesian islands by Danielsson who was the anthropologist on board Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki voyage.
1950. The story of a daring voyage by the author and five companions on board a primitive raft from the coast of Peru to the Pacific Islands.
1937. A book on Hawaii and the Islands of the South Seas.
1955. 1st edition. The author's travels to Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora, Tubai, Maupiti, Mopelia, and Rarotonga.
1952. A story of a young man in the Pacific, living for thirty years in the Gilbert & Ellis Islands working for the Colonial Office.
1988. SIGNED. The real story of Canadian born Auckland based criminal lawyer Christopher Harder and his detention in a Fiji military jail.
2004. 1st edition. This magnificent book showcases more than 250 of the finest examples of traditional jewellery from the Pacific.
1977. 1st edition. Cook and Forneaux took Mai to England where he was a curiosity and learnt some European ways.
2009. 1st edition. Retelling of a legend set in ancient Tonga.
1994. A critical analysis, from a variety of perspectives, of the nature of the social, political, economic and cultural experiences of the Pacific Islands peoples in colonial and contemporary times.
1956. 1st edition. Focuses on diving adventures in the West Indies with many great underwater photos.
1974. 1st edition. The author was a sergeant in the Australian Army and arrived, somewhat unceremoniously, by parachute on the island of Kiriwana.
Circa 1930. 1st edition. A record of a year spent among the simple, friendly cannibals of Atuona valley, on the island of Hiva-oa in the Marquesas.
1962. 1st edition. A selective combination in one volume of the books 'Adam with Arrows', 'Adam in Plumes' and 'Islands of Men'.
1961. 1st edition. An impression of the Pacific and the people who live there.
1957. 1st edition. Author explores a writer's paradise - a land of witchcraft and taboos, evil spirits and pagan idols.
1948. 1st edition. Examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu.
1964. 1st edition. An autobiographical account of life in Tahiti. Includes a glossary of Tahitian words.
1950. 1st edition. Adventurers in Dutch New Guinea up to the Sterren Range.
1949. 1st edition. Travel Adventures translated from the Swedish by Joan Bulman.
1942. A narrative survey of the new world of Oceania, the Islands of the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands Indies and Malaya.
1946. 1st edition. A collections of tales of island life, war in the Pacific, fiction, verse, history and cartoons about the South Pacific.
1955, 1st edition. The discovery of Tahiti, when, in 1766, Captain Samuel Wallis sailed the Dolphin out from Plymouth Sound.
1972. 1st edition. Follows the life journey of Sond and Wasun, two Papua New Guinean villagers and their journey to Christianity.
1988. This re-examination of the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea.
1978. 1st edition. A collection of essays put together by a wide range of Pacific specialists on Henry Maude.
Vintage school story book, fairy tales from the Pacific Islands.
1966. 1st edition. The European impact on the Pacific in the 18th Century.
1957. Journalists account of time spent in Tonga observing Sexual freedoms and taboos, religion and the older superstitions.
1992. A well illustrated account of Norfolk Island that not only recounts the earthworks, and the land surrendered to the airfield, but also the people of the island, and those that came to help.
1905 (115 yo). 1st edition. History of Pitcairn Island.
1982. 1st edition. Exploring life from New Caledonia to New Hebrides by trading sailboat or cargo ferry including cultural clashes.
1986. Norfolk and Pitcairn are two island specks in the South Pacific separated by over 3700 miles but joined in a common heritage.
1969. Change - Conflict - Continuity.
1955. 1st edition. The story of John Francis Goldie as a missionary among the people of Western Solomon Islands.
1948. 1st edition. The author's island paradise, with drawings by Nicholas Mordvinoff.
2009. 1st edition. A Volunteer's Story of Life and Development on Remote Pacific Islands.
1991. Attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands.
1966. 1st edition. The Personal Account of A Member of Thor Heyerdahl's Expedition to Easter Island.
1953. History of the Pacific covering discovery, trade and immigration in Australia.
1970. A series of portraits of men and women who lived in the islands between the early years of the nineteenth century.
1989. 1st edition. Author's adventures and travels from England to New Zealand and on to Tahiti, New Hebrides, Marquesas, Samoa and other places in the Pacific.
1965. 1st edition. The stories in this book first appeared in the Pacific Islands Monthly.
1965. The true story of discovery, adventure & settlement in the wide expanses of the Pacific Ocean, from the first hazardous voyage of Magellan to the closing years of the 19th Century.
1962. 1st edition. Author's account of his time whilst being based in the the British Western Pacific Territories and Fiji.
1962. 1st edition. The account of a major mountain range in Central New Guinea, and of the wild, mostly unexplored country surrounding it.
1967. 1st edition. Micheal Courage's experiences in the voluntary Service Overseas Organisation working with an Anglican Mission in Eastern New Guinea.
2000. 1st edition. Celebrated author Scott Cunningham offers a sociological and historical perspective on the fascinating beliefs and practices of the Hawaiian people before the advent of Christianity
Circa 1950. Story largely about Tahiti and adjacent islands by one who was born there.
1996. Photograph book of the Fiji Islands.
1969. 1st edition. An engaging autobiographical account of a young American woman's life in her Samoan husband's native home.
1962. Set in Dutch New Guinea in the early 1960's, this book accounts the spiritual advance of Christian missionaries into the remote area of the Dani tribesmen.
1944. The author of I Married Adventure, continues her memoirs of exploration in the primitive areas of the world.
2008. 1st edition. The fascinating story of how gender, culture, class, and personality intersect as a group of indigenous Hawaiian men work to overcome the dislocations of colonial history.
1945. The author's island paradise, with drawings by Nicholas Mordvinoff and the photographs of Prudence and Igor Anziferoff Allen, going from Tahiti to Huahine.
1958. Thor Heyerdahl's research at Rano Raraku & Anakena on their many giant stone statues.
1964. 1st edition. Diary of the author's exploration and research in Dutch New Guinea.
1963. 1st edition. Story of Olaf Ruhen who travelled through Papua and Australian New Guinea during the early 1960s.