Cook Islands Culture / Akono'Anga Maori by Ron Crocombe and Marjorie Tua'inekore Crocombe (eds)

$35.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

This book views key elements of Cook Islands culture from within as it is, as it was, and as it may become. As well as discussing the familiar aspects of culture (creative arts, language, religion etc.) the various contributors reveal insights into aspects such as the impact of corporate culture, inter- cultural marriage and the changing political culture. ...Show more

Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ple, powerful story of cross-cultural encounter. ...Show more

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester

$16.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It is the stuff of the towering Captain Cook and his wide-ranging network of exploring voyages, Robert Louis Stevenson and Admiral Halsey. It is the place of Paul Gauguin and the explosion of the largest-ever American atomic bomb, on Bikini atoll, in 1951. It has an astonishing recent past, an uncertain present and a hugely important future. The ocean and its peoples are the new lifeblood, fizz and thrill of America - which draws so many of its minds and so much of its manners from the sea - while the inexorable rise of the ancient center of the world, China, is a fixating fascination. The presence of rogue states - North Korea most notoriously today - suggest that the focus of the responsible world is shifting away from the conventional post-war obsessions with Europe and the Middle East, and towards a new set of urgencies. Navigating the newly evolving patterns of commerce and trade, the world's most violent weather and the fascinating histories, problems and potentials of the many Pacific states, Simon Winchester's thrilling journey is a grand depiction of the future ocean. ...Show more

My Kotuku of the South Seas: Living and Loving in Rarotonga - A Memoir by Helen Henry

$16.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: near fine

Why Tikopia Has Four Clans by Anthony Hooper

$14.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Occasional Paper No. 38 | Reading Level: good

Say It In Fijian: An entertaining introduction to the language of Fiji by A. J. Schutz

$10.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Records of the Auckland Museum Volume 47 2010 by J. W. Early and P. F. Pereira (eds)

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Series: Records of the Auckland Museum | Reading Level: very good

Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary by C. Maxwell Churchward

$250.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Tahiti aux temps anciens by Teuira Henry

$350.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Translated from English by Bertrand Jaunez

Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment by E. S. Craighill Handy and Elizabeth Green Handy

$450.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 233 | Reading Level: very good

Marquesan Legends by E. S. Craighill Handy

$145.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Bayard Dominick Expedition Number 18 | Reading Level: very good

Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 69

A Dictionary of the Maori Language of Rarotonga by Stephen Savage

$55.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good