Pacific Nations and Territories
Pacific Nations and Territories

Author: Reilly Ridgell

Publisher: Bess Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781573060011

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Provides a background in Pacific geography, culture, and history, plus an overview of the different Pacific island groups.

Mystery Islands
Mystery Islands

Author: Tom Koppel

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9789820108882

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There are more than 20,000 islands in the Pacific; fewer than half of them are inhabited. Some are too small or too barren to sustain human life, others are subject to the vagaries of the tides or without fresh water. But many uninhabited Pacific islands have supported life, and been home to Pacific island cultures and societies only to disappear seemingly in an instant--the so-called Mystery Islands. Tom Koppel's personal odyssey across a vast ocean and through time explores new theories and discoveries surrounding life throughout the Pacific. From celestial navigation and the sweep of the ocean currents, the hardships of survival and settlement, to the rich tapestry of Pacific Island customs and traditions, Mystery Islands shows how new archaeological findings have changed our entire of when and how the Pacific islands were first discovered and settled, beginning over 3,000 years ago.

Island Time
Island Time

Author: Damon Salesa

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Published: 2017-12-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1988533503

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The task of living in modern New Zealand – and especially in modern Auckland – is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened. New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a fuller understanding of what life is really like on these shores. After all, Salesa argues, in many ways New Zealand’s Pacific future has already happened. Setting a course through the ‘islands’ of Pacific life in New Zealand – Ōtara, Tokoroa, Porirua, Ōamaru and beyond – he charts a country becoming ‘even more Pacific by the hour’. What would it mean, this far-sighted book asks, for New Zealand to recognise its Pacific talent and finally act like a Pacific nation?

Pacific Island Legends
Pacific Island Legends

Author: Bo Flood

Publisher: Bess Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781573060783

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Collects forty-three historical or traditional stories from the Pacific Islands, including creation myths and stories of gods, heroes, and ordinary people. --amazon.com.

Tides of History
Tides of History

Author: K. R. Howe

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 9781863735414

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This is the first detailed history of the Pacific Islands in the twentieth century. An innovative mixture of chronological, geographical and thematic approaches.;

Pacific Presences
Pacific Presences

Author: Lucie Carreau

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9789088905919

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Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their disp.