Books - "pacific"
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Aventures dans le Pacifique: From the Accounts of French Voayagers to the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand
TEXT MOSTLY FRENCH, WITH ENGLISH SUMMARIES; paperback (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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1967
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history French exploration Pacific Islands Australia nautical maritime diaries illustrated
Pacific Journeys: Essays in Honour of John Dunmore
Super 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: Victoria University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: John Dunmore tribute essays Pacific travel French exploration history New Zealand historians maritime seafaring Maori pakeha
A Clash of Paradigms: Intervention, Response and Development in the South Pacific
Octavo, beige heavy boards, white & green lettering to spine & boards, xix + 258pp, VG (light bruising & fading to spine, light chafing to boards, light foxing to page edges, ffep ripped out, contents clean & tidy)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate 2001
KEYWORDS: geography South Pacific SOAS development Samoa Samoan islands cattle agriculture farming
Whitcombe's New War Atlas: The World at a Glance (Second and Revised Edition)
Imperial octavo, stapled illus light card wrappers, printed inside covers, 16pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing & creasing to spine & cover edges, moderate tearing to spine extrems & base of front cover, moderate to heavy tanning/foxing & scuffing to covers, whole page block detached at top staple, moderate tanning & foxing to inside covers/eps, light to moderate tanning to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs N/D
KEYWORDS: military history war atlas atlases Europe European America Pacific
The Sikhs of Fiji
Ex-library, octavo, stapled orange illus light card wrappers, white lettering to front cover, 60pp + notes to rear, VG- (usual library markings, heavy fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to inside covers, bottom section of rear ep removed, minor tearing to covers at staples)
PUBLISHER: South Pacific Social Sciences Association N/D (c.1980s?)
KEYWORDS: India Indian sikhs religion Fiji Pacific islands religion
Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, grey light card wrappers, black & maroon lettering to spine, maps to inside covers, xix + 623pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate soiling & creasing/curling to spine & covers/edges, light to moderate soiling to page edges, sl fading to spine, prev. owner's name i nink to ffep, light cracking to gutter of half title page)
PUBLISHER: IPS Publications 2007
KEYWORDS: signed first editions Ron Crocombe Pacific Islands politics trade foreign relations Oceania economics
Up and Down; or, Fifty Years' Colonial Experiences in Australia, California, New Zealand, India, China, and the South Pacific
FIRST EDITON, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & boards, aeg, frontispiece, xii + (2) + 307pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing/chafing & soiling/staining to spine & boards/extrems, sl tanning & water staining to eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1879
KEYWORDS: first editions colonialism colonial history Captain W J Barry memoirs autobiography autobiographies Australia New Zealand California India China Sout Pacific
A History of the Pacific: From the Stone Age to the Present Day
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson 1978
KEYWORDS: Pacific Islands history people anthropology
Island Populations of the Pacific
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Australian National University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: Pacific Islands history people anthropology populations
The Story of the Solomons
Octavo, green heavy boards, black lettering to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG- (light bruising to spine & board corners, light soiling to rear board, minor insect damage to front hinge, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter- ffep potentially removed, light tanning & creasing to prelims, occasional sl foxing throughout) in d/wm VG (moderate creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges/folds at flaps, other minor soiling, 2cm closed tear to top edge of front cover, other sl closed tearing/chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: D O M Publications 1967
KEYWORDS: pacific islands Solomon Islands history colonialism anthropology geopolitics
Flyboys: The Final Secret of the Air War in the Pacfic
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Aurum Press 2003
KEYWORDS: Pacific war military history biography George Bush missing persons Chichi Jima
Three Voyages of a Naturalist; Being an Account of Many Little-Known Islands in Three Oceans Visited by the Valhalla RYS
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xxx + 246pp, illus, VG (moderate fading/discolourationt o spine, minor bruising & rubbing to extrems, light chafing/soiling & fading to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, sm label tipped in to front pastedown, prev. owner's in pencil to ffep, moderate foxing throughout, minor cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Witherby & Co 1909
KEYWORDS: exploration history Valhalla RYS voyages Africa West Indies Pacific islands
Race Class and Rebellion in the South Pacific
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: George Allen & Unwin 1979
KEYWORDS: South Pacific imperialism politics resisitance race class
Island Time: New Zealand's Pacific Futures
Paperback (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: Bridget Williams Books 2018
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history sociology politics Pacific identity living standards Maori pakeha
The Rising Tide: Among the Islands and Atolls of the Pacific Ocean
Super octavo softcover (near 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hardie Grant Books 2019
KEYWORDS: Pacific Islands travel reportage politics climate change
Where Worlds Collide: The Wallace Line
Super 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 1997
KEYWORDS: the Alfred Russel Wallace Line theory pacific Asian wildlife evolution
The Revolt of the Samoans [Second Edition]
SECOND EDITION, octavo stapled wrappers (VG) minor pencil annotations; 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: The Clarte Book Depot / The New Zealand worker co. 1928
KEYWORDS: Samoan revolt Pacific Island Polynesian colonial history uprising Samoa
Guadalcanal: An American Story
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 1999
KEYWORDS: American military history world war two battle of Guadalcanal Pacific island U.S. First Marine Division
The Struggle for Guadalcanal August 1942-February 1943 [History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume V]
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Castle Books 2001
KEYWORDS: United States navy military history world war two Guadalcanal Pacific
The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 1767-1768
Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, map/illus to eps, lxxvii + 322pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light fading/tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Map Library 2002
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society series exploration history maritime Pacific journals Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 17th seventeenth century