Books - "pacific"
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Margaret Mead: A Life
EX LIBRARY, super octavo, hardcover ( VG - ) d/w ( VG - ) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Harvill Press 1984
KEYWORDS: history anthropologist anthropology explorer Pacific women woman photos
The Adventures of Vela
SIGNED & INSCRIBED & DATED BY AUTHOR, octavo softcover (nr FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Huia 2009
KEYWORDS: new zealand samoan poets poetry poems pacific literature
Pacific Island
Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson
KEYWORDS: Herbert Ypma photographic collection photography pacific polynesia maori culture
The Kahuna: Versatile Masters of Old Hawai'i
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Petroglyph Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Kahuna Hawaii Hawai'i Hawaian history culture Polynesia Polynesian Pacific Island Islands Islander Pasifika
The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories
SIGNED & INCRIBED BY AUTHOR, octavo softcover (nr.FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Random House New Zealand 1999
KEYWORDS: short stories new zealand pacific literature samoan writters fiction
Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage
FIRST EDITION super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Random House 1987
KEYWORDS: Buckley sailing Pacific voyage Azores
Log of Logs: Volume Two (A Catalogue of Logs, Journals, Shipboard Diaries, Letters, and All Forms of Voyage Narratives, 1788 to 1993, For Australia and New Zealand, and Surrounding Oceans)
THIS VOLUME ONLY, Imperial octavo green illus. light card covers, 608pp, VG- (light scuffing to covers, moderate to heavy creasing and fading to spine, heavy soiling to edges, light soiling to contents, prev. owner's name in pen to title page, notes page at rear has been filled in (pencil only))
PUBLISHER: Roebuck 1993
KEYWORDS: logs journals diaries letters voyage voyages exploration arrivals departures immigration New Zealand history local regional colonial settler migrant maritime sailing ship ships Australia Australian Pacific Ocean Islands
We, The TIkopia - Kinship In Primitive Polynesia
Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Beacon Press 1963
KEYWORDS: anthropology sociology polynesia pasifika history pacific
Koreri: Messianic Movements in the Biak-Numfor Culture Area
Super octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine (probable library rebind), xii+328+folding map to rear, VG+ (tidy ex-library, occasional v. sl. tanning and soiling within)
PUBLISHER: Martinus Nijhoff 1972
KEYWORDS: koreri messianic movements numfor culture area biak biak-numfor pacific schouten islands west papua new guinea syncretic syncretism religion religious spirituality
Life and Leadership in Melanesia
Octavo illus. light card covers, vi+137pp, VG+ (light soiling to covers edges and occasionally within, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific / University of Papua New Guinea 1983
KEYWORDS: melanesia melanesian pacific islands islanders leadership culture politics papua new guinea png governance government
The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster
4x VOLUME SET, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt emblem to front and gilt lettering to spine, i. xvii+182pp ; ii. viii+187 ; iii. viii+183pp ; iv. viii+276pp; VG+ (occasional light foxing to edges) in d/w VG (light to moderate scuffing, creasing; minor closed tears and chips, v. sl. fading to spines)
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1982
KEYWORDS: resolution maritime exploration history johann reinhold forster journal journals memoir hakluyt society captain james cook pacific ocean
As Luck Would Have It: the Reminiscences of an Australian Sailor
Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii+191pp, illus., VG (moderate scuffing and v. sl. fading to boards, light tanning within, prev. owner's details in pen to fep.) in d/w VG- (prev. owner's extensive tape repairsalong top and bottom edges, price-clipped, moderate scuffing, soiling to reverse)
PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1965
KEYWORDS: australia australian maritime autobiography memoir naval royal college grand fleet military history mediterranean world war two second ww2 philippines pacific
A Grammar of Lenakel
Quarto light card covers, vi+135+16pp adverts at rear, VG+ (light scuffing and creasing to covers, minor little gouges to bottom edge (unobtrusive))
PUBLISHER: Australian National University 1978
KEYWORDS: pacific linguistics series b no. 55 lenakel language reference grammar tanna island new hebrides austronesian islands
Fast Talking PI
CD at rear. Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: poetry pacific islander pi pasifika poems poet
The Whale People
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Totem Books 1982
KEYWORDS: pacific literature fantasy
Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific
large quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2004
KEYWORDS: art modern comtemporary New Zealand Pacific colour color
Asia In The Pacific Islands - Replacing The West
Super Octavo softcover, illus light card covers, black & red lettering to spine and card covers, xviii + 623pp., VG (light splitting to cover corners, slight creasing to front cover, v. slight creasing to hinges, v. slight soiling to boards, v. light scuffing to page edges. slight creasing to interior page corners.)
PUBLISHER: IPS Publications, University Of The South Pacific
KEYWORDS: politics economics development pacific island pasifika history
There is no place like home Migration and Cultural Identity of the Sonsorolese, Micronesia
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine and covers, vii + 332pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg 2004
KEYWORDS: Stephanie Walda-Mandel pacific anthropology micronesia sonsorolese
By the Numbers
FIRST EDITION, octavo, light card covers, black lettering to cover, illust title page, 95 pp, illust, VG- ( heavy chipping to edges, moderate foxing to covers & front & rear eps, slight foxing to pages, moderate tanning to covers & pages, 1 cm open tear top rear cover + 3.5 cm by 1.5 cm open tear lower corner of back cover, 8 mm + 1 cm closed tear top front cover )
PUBLISHER: Oswald - Sealy Ltd 1944
KEYWORDS: poetry poem poems poet humour world war 2 ww2 two Pacific United States America
Tia
FIRST EDITION. Octavo Softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Reed Books 1993
KEYWORDS: literature pacific pasifika modern first edition