Books - "pacific"
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Tahiti: A Paradise Lost
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: Harvill Press 1983
KEYWORDS: pacific islands Tahiti history exploration
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia's Signals-Intelligence Network Helped Win the Pacific War
Tidy ex-library, 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: Scribe Publications 2017
KEYWORDS: Central Bureau Australia Australian intelligence networks espionage Pacific War code breakers history
Towards a Relevant Pacific Theology: The Role of the Churches and Theological Education: A Report of a Theological Consultation Held in Bergenren House, Suva, Fiji 8-12 July 1985
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: Lotu Pasifika Productions 1986
KEYWORDS: moana theology religion pacific pasifika churches
Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775 - 1861 (Parts I & II) & Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen Transcripts of Registers of Shipping 1787 - 1862 (Part III)
Super octavo illus light card wrappers, blue text to wrapper & spine, illus inside wrappers, frontispiece, 276pp + 104pp, illus/maps, VG+ (v slight scuffing to edges of wrapper, light foxing to page edges, slight soiling & tanning to wrapper and page edges)
PUBLISHER: A Roebuck Book 1986
KEYWORDS: south seas trade lloyds list maritime nautical pacific ocean shipping seamen eighteenth nineteenth century history a g e jones
Pandemonium or Paradise? Kath and Bob Paul in the New Hebrides 1946-1980
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, white text to wrapper & spine, frontispiece, viii + 313pp, illus, Nr FINE (slight soiling to wrapper & page edges, v slight creasing & scuffing to wrapper corners & edges)
PUBLISHER: Crawford House Publishing 1997
KEYWORDS: new hebrides kath paul bob paul marney dunn vanuatu history polynesia pacific pasefika pacifica memoir
Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Magareva ere chretienne 1834-1871
TEXT IN FRENCH, imperial octavo, grey light card wrappers, black text to spine & wrapper, deckled edges, some remain uncut, frontispiece, cxxviii + 672pp, illus, VG (light creasing to wrapper edges, moderate bruising to spine, light to moderate soiling & tanning to wrapper & page edges, light foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to prelims, plates & folding maps)
PUBLISHER: Publications de la Societe des Oceanistes, No 15 Musee de l'Homme 1968
KEYWORDS: text in french memoir honore laval mangareva history catholic mission polynesia pacific christian
Un Siecle et demi de Contacts Culturels a Tanna: Nouvelles-Hebrides
TEXT IN FRENCH, imperial octavo, grey light card wrappers, black text to spine & wrapper, x + 426pp, illus/plates/maps, VG (moderate tanning to wrapper, moderate scuffing & creasing to spine & wrapper corners, light tanning to pages)
PUBLISHER: Publications de la Societe des Oceanistes, No 5 Musee de l'Homme 1956
KEYWORDS: text in french memoir honore laval mangareva history catholic mission polynesia pacific christian new hebrides vanuatu
Twenty-five years of Mission Life on Tanna, New Hebrides
FIRST EDITION,octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt decoration to front board & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 391pp, illus + plates (not counted, presumed all present), G+ (heavy soiling to boards & spine, light to moderate scuffing & chafing to boards & spine, two gouges with surface loss to spine, moderate insect damage to boards & page block, front gutter & page 48-49 gutter cracked, moderate soiling & tanning to pages, light foxing to pages, gift inscription of N[?] Watt to fep)
PUBLISHER: J and R Parlane 1896
KEYWORDS: new hebrides colonial christian mission female nineteenth century memoir presbyterian reformed missionaries polynesia pacific tanna vanuatu
Messengers of Grace: Evangelical Missionaries in the South Seas 1797-1860
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 437pp, illus, VG+ (v slight scuffing to board corners & extrems, light foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & fading, slight chafing to rear of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: protestant south seas missionaries missions evangelical colonisation christian pacific polynesia
Captain Cook and the South Pacific: The British Museum Yearbook 3
Imperial 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: Australian National University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: history exploration Captain James Cook South Pacific
Among the Islands
Ex-library, 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: Text Publishing 2011
KEYWORDS: Tim Flannery exploration science pacific zoology Melanesia biology
The People of the Sea: The Maritime Dimension of Pacific Island History
WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED PHD THESIS, LATER PUBLISHED AS BOOK OF THE SAME TITLE, quarto, royal blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 335pp, illus, Nr FINE, (v sl foxing to page edges, v sl bruising to corners)
PUBLISHER: A Thesis Submitted for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University, March 2001
KEYWORDS: phd thesis paul d'arcy pacific island history polynesia maritime marine
A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean 1796-1798
FACSIMILE EDITION WITH FOLDING MAPS TO REAR, super octavo, white heavy boards, black text to spine, xix + 420pp, illus/maps (all present), VG+ (slight bruising to spine, light soiling to board edges, upper page edges moderately foxed) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, slight soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Fruhe Reisen Und Seefahrten in Originalberichten Band 5, Akademische Druck Austria 1966
KEYWORDS: james wilson missionary missionaries south seas pacific polynesia christianity history colonisation
The History of the Melansian Mission
Tidy ex-library, super octavo, burgundy buckram boards, upper page edges dyed grey, lower page edges deckled, frontispiece, xxviii + 372pp, illus + maps + plates (all present) VG+ (slight brusing & scuffing to edges of spine & boards, light fading & soiling to spine, light soiling & tanning to page edges, library sticker to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Isbister and Company Limited 1900
KEYWORDS: melaniesian mission christian colonisation george augustus selwyn polynesia pacific ocean islands missionaries anglican free church of scotland
Memoirs of the Life of Rev John Williams: Missionary to Polynesia
FIRST EDITION, blue heavy boards, half bound in brown leather, raised bands, gilt decoration & lettering to spine, all page edges marbled, marbled eps, frontispiece, viii + 618pp, illus, G+ (lower section of leather on spine coming away but binding secure, moderate to heavy scuffing to boards & spine, light to moderate tanning to page edges,
PUBLISHER: John Snow 1843
KEYWORDS: first edition missions missionaries polynesia pacific john williams
Action this Day: A War Memoir
Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper edges stained pink, illus eps, frontispiece, 223pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to board & spine edges, moderate soiling to boards, light soiling, fading & foxing to page edges, sporadic light soiling to pages) in d/w VG- (moderate soiling, tanning & scuffing to jacket, tearing with 2cm loss to two sections of jacket, light to moderate chipping & creasing to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller ltd 1960
KEYWORDS: second world war two ii memoir war admiral of the fleet sir philip vian royal navy rn pacific theatre theater japan
Pacific Neighbours: New Zealand's Relations with Other Pacific Islands / Aotearoa me Nga Moutere o te Moana Nui a Kiwa
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: MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies of the University of Canterbury / Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific 1992
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa pacific islands foreign relations politics
Old Growth in a New World: A Pacific Northwest Icon Reexamined
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: Island Press 2008
KEYWORDS: forests nature northwest pacific region ecology conservation
Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific
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: University of Pittsburgh Press 1992
KEYWORDS: PNG Papua New Guinea humour humor comedy south pacific anthropology
Captain Cook in Alaska and the North 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Todd Communications 2008
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical exploration history Captain James Cook Alaska North Pacific