Books - "pacific"
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Western Pacific Islands
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970
KEYWORDS: western pacific islands history Austin Coates
D-Day New Guinea
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2019
KEYWORDS: Pacific war military history Lae aviation naval aerial maritime warfare ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Scribner 2003
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Solomon Islands south pacific Will Randall
Polynesia's Sacred Isle: The Ring of Fire, Volume III
THIS VOL ONLY, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Dodd, Mead & Company 1976
KEYWORDS: Polynesia ring of fire geology Raiatea Pacific science Apetahia travel history
Nguna Voices: Text and Culture from the Central Vanuatu
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xii + 351pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light fading to spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Calgary Press 1988
KEYWORDS: signed Ellen E Facey Vanuatu ethnology folklore lore Nguna culture Pacific islands
A Directory for the Navigation of the South Pacific Ocean; with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands etc, from the Strait of Magalhaens to Panama, and Those of New Zealand, Australia etc, its Winds, Currents and Passages (Third Edition)
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to boards, folding map/frontispiece, viii + 966pp, illus/folding maps, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy scuffing & cracking/bruising to spine, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate foxing & soiling to prelims inc. folding map frontis, occasional moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light to moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Published for Richard Holmes Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, EC 1871, With Additions to 1874
KEYWORDS: south pacific ocean directories geology landscapes islands history historical
Healing Practices in the South Pacific
Super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps at eps, xii + 250pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to front board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. ownership inscriptions in ink with some correction fluid to ffep & half title page) in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing to spine, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, other minor chafing also)
PUBLISHER: The Institute for Polynesian Studies 1985
KEYWORDS: oceania medicine Polynesia south pacific alternative healing folk medicines
A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origins, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants (Sixth Thousand)
SIXTH THOUSAND, octavo, half leatherbound brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine with rsaised bands also, aeg, frontispiece, illus title page, xviii + 590pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork, minor fading & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling to gilt page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: J Snow 1837
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history natural history missions missionaries south sea islands pacific anthropology
A Doctor in Paradise
octavo hardcover (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: J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1942
KEYWORDS: medical history medicine pacific islands S M Lambert
We, The Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G); 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: The University Press of Hawaii 1972
KEYWORDS: pacific orientation wayfinding landfinding navigators
The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Volume III
THIS VOL ONLY 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Castle Books 2001
KEYWORDS: history United States naval operations second 2nd world war two 2 ww2 wwii educational navy military history Pacific conflict
Tales of the Tikongs
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: University of Hawai'i Press 1994
KEYWORDS: fiction Polynesian Pacific Hawai'i Hawaiian author
The Church in Post-Sixties New Zealand; Decline, Growth and Change
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Archer Press 2013
KEYWORDS: church sixties New Zealand Kevin Ward pacific christianity
A History of the Pacific Islands
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Palgrave 2002
KEYWORDS: Steven Roger Fischer Pacific history geneology science polynesia
Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps,pale yellow text to wrapper & spine, 252pp, VG+ (v slight fading to spine & wrapper, v slight soiling to wrapper, previous bookseller's label to inside wrapper, v slight tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2005
KEYWORDS: tattoo body modification art culture pacific western pasifika west
Fred Gratten, Talatonu: Islands and Atolls: A Biography
SIGNED BY SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS, quarto, illus glossy light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, [4] + xii + 164pp, illus/photos, folding family tree to rear, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Michael and Helen Gratten & Jeannie and Richard Gluyas 2009
KEYWORDS: pacific islands Samoa Fred Gratten biography memoir biographies family history research genealogy
Pacific Tales
Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & black lettering to spine & front board, black illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 323pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine extrems, sl bruising & rubbing to board extrems, minor discolouration/soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1924
KEYWORDS: travel exploration history Pacific islands Louis Becke
New Zealand's Coasts
Super octavo softcover (VG), inscriptions in pen to tp; 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: David Ling 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand landscape photography coast coastline ocean sea Pacific
Men from Under the Sky: The Arrival of Westeners
FIRST EDITION. Sm octavo, orange cl boards, spine lettered in white & blue; illus. eps, frontis., illus., plates; 327 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; price clipped).
PUBLISHER: Charles R. Tuttle Company 1973
KEYWORDS: Westeners social history colonial Fiji Fijians European American pacific islands
A Pacific Parliament: A Pacific Idea - An Economic and Political Community for 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Asia Pacific Books 1982
KEYWORDS: Asia Pacific politics political economics Oceania