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Charles E. Tuttle Co, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 336 pages, with index and glossary, illustrated dust jacket. The top edge of the text block is spotted, the back strip section of the dust jacket has faded. . These lectures were by a group of scientists on the staff of the Bishop Museum and others who discussed such topics as: race; government; feasts and holidays; houses and villages; food; fiberwork; language; music; carving; warfare; navigation; medicine; nature; and other subjects. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Pacific; Hawaii; ISBN: 0804800235. ISBN/EAN: 9780804800235. Inventory No: 0211053. . 9780804800235
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Ancient Hawaiian Civilization. a series of lectures delivered at the Kamehemeha Schools
by HANDY, E. S. Craighill, and Kenneth P. Emory, Edwin H. Bryan, Peter H. Buck, John H. Wise and Others
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Battleground South Pacific
by Howlett, Roberts -- Text
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A.H. & A. W. Reed, Sydney, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Bruce Adams -- Photographer. VI, 7-224 pages, last page blank, foreword by Sir Arthur Lee, KBE, MC, National President, Returned Services League of Australia, introduction by author and acknowledgements. Map Illustrated endpapers, showing North West Pacific region. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white photographs taken by Bruce Adams, throughout the text. Green coloured cloth covered boards with red titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing to the book corners. Light age toning of the internal text. Colour photographic dustwrapper with black and red titles to the front panel and white and black titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Black-and-white photograph of author and photographer to the rear fold over panel. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. A…
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The Fatal Impact; The Invasion of the South Pacific 1767 -- 1840
by Moorehead, Alan
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Penguin, London, 1979. reprint. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations, appendix, selected bibliography and index. 25 illustrations, and 5 black and white maps and drawings by H. J. Blackman. " "The history of the South Pacific region since the discovery by Europeans have been one of disaster, corruption and annihilation. "...and, ironically, in each case it was Cook, one of the greatest and certainly the most humane explorer of his day, who was to cause the fatal impact.". -- from the front fold over panel blurb, of the hardcover dustjacket. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 283 pages. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage apart from age toning of the page edges. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Exploration; Pacific; History -- Pacific; Pacific; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0140027734. ISBN/EAN: 9780140027730. Inventory…
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The Fatal Impact; The Invasion of the South Pacific 1767 -- 1840
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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations, appendix, selected bibliography and index. 25 illustrations, and 5 black and white maps and drawings by H. J. Blackman. " "The history of the South Pacific region since the discovery by Europeans have been one of disaster, corruption and annihilation. "...and, ironically, in each case it was Cook, one of the greatest and certainly the most humane explorer of his day, who was to cause the fatal impact.". -- from the front fold over panel blurb, of the hardcover dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 283 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Exploration; Pacific; History -- Pacific; Inventory No: 0246178. .
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Fishes of Polynesia
by BAGNIS, Raymond, MAZELLIER, Philippe, BENNETT, Jack & CHRISTIAN, Erwin
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Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 368 pages, photographic end pages, with 1 map and hundreds of colour illustrations. Title page: Hoa / Chameleon Sea Bass. Endpages: Tahitian fisherman casting his net; Cloth cover. Lettering on front cover and spine The fishes of French Polynesia (names in Latin, Tahitian (Mao'hi) & English). The fish are grouped either in taxonomic families or by biological and morphological affinities which exceed the criteria normally used to define a family. The general behaviour, eating habits, biological characters, as well as local methods of spearing or fishing each species, have received much attention. Besides the Tahitian names for each species, the names used in other archipelagoes is also given. The occasional recipe adds interest to the book. :-) the colour photographic illustrated dustwrapper has a 0.5 in. tear at the top left of the front panel, with associated…
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Hell and Paradise; the Norfolk Bounty Pitcairn Saga
by Clarke, Peter
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Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 189 pp., front endpaper map of Norfolk Island, the rear endpaper map of Pitcairn Island, bibliography, index. Illustrated with colour photographs, drawings, black and white drawings, maps, facsimiles. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Separated by many thousands of miles, Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island sharing common history, of mutiny and rebellion, a legacy of Hell on a scale unique in history, interspersed with spells of Paradise which few mortals have experienced. there is no damage to describe. Signed by the author on the front end page Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Pacific; Pitcairn Island; ISBN: 0670815217. ISBN/EAN: 9780670815210. Inventory No: 0272580. . 9780670815210
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The Inseparable Grief; Margaret Cargill of Fiji
by Dickson, Mora
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Denis Dobson, London, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 400 g.; (5), 6-174, (2) pages, acknowledgements, bibliography and index. At the beginning of the text is a map, double paged, showing Fiji and its environs. Blue/green coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. A little bumping to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Fading to the top book edges and there is browning and foxing to the top text block edge. Browning to the other text block edges and age toning to the internal text. Staining can be seen to the top right-hand corner of the free front end paper and a half title page. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and green coloured background and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing to the dustwrapper panels and creasing to the dustwrapper edgings. Sunning to the backstrip. Staining to the top right-hand corner of the front panel. There is a small nick to the top edge of the front dustwrapper panel. The biography of Margaret Cargill, and her…
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The Last Bastion
by Williamson, Kristin
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Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 264 pp., 59 black and white illustrations, two maps. Based on the TV series written by David Williamson and Denis Whitburn. The story of the three years through which Australia was in the frontline of the Pacific war. " We are the last bastion between the Japanese and the west coast of America. If you let us fall, America itself is in danger". This appeal, broadcast by Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin to the United States in 1942, signalled the greatest crisis in Australia's history. there is no damage to the book or the dustjacket. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Pacific; Military History -- Australia; Military History; ISBN: 0701818476. ISBN/EAN: 9780701818470. Inventory No: 0241800. . 9780701818470
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The Last Bastion
by Williamson, Kristin
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Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 264 pp., 59 black and white illustrations, two maps. Based on the TV series written by David Williamson and Denis Whitburn. The story of the three years through which Australia was in the frontline of the Pacific war. " We are the last bastion between the Japanese and the west coast of America. If you let us fall, America itself is in danger". This appeal, broadcast by Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin to the United States in 1942, signalled the greatest crisis in Australia's history. Apart from the previous owner's name on the first page which has been scribbled over, there is no damage to describe. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Pacific; Military History -- Australia; Military History;…
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Long Day's Journey in to War; December 7, 1941
by Weintraub, Stanley
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Truman Talley Books /Dutton, New York, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. list of maps, sources and strategies, acknowledgements and index. The text is illustrated with three pages of maps at the beginning of the text and 16 pages of black-and-white photographs between pages 354 and 355. 1/4 black coloured cloth backstrip with silver titles. 3/4 blue/gray coloured boards. Bumping and slight discolouration to the backstrip edges and minor rubbing to the book corners. There has been fading to the extreme edges of the book panels and browning of the text block edges. Plain text dustwrapper with gray coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel flap. " Long Day's Journey into War captures the whirlwind events sweeping the world on the calendar day that may…
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THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK
by RIENITS, Rex and Thea
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Paul Hamlyn, Middlesex, England, 1970. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. map of Cook's three voyages, index and acknowledgements. Illustrated endpapers, showing natives of a South Sea Island, a contemporary illustration from Cook's time. Profusely illustrated with 38 colour illustrations and over 140 in black-and-white -- both contemporary illustrations and photography. Navy blue coloured boards with a gilt coloured illustration, of a compass, to the lower right-hand corner of the front board. Gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing and wear to the book edges and Browning of the text block edges. Illustrated dustwrapper, with advertising wraparound, with blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and panels. Some rubbing on the advertising banner edges. The story of Captain James Cook's three voyages to the South…
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