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There are 45 books in this catalogue.
Who Travels Alone.
Greenhop, F. S.
Book Number: 67788
ISBN: 
Publisher: K. G. Murray Publishing Company, Sydney, 1944.
8vo. hardcover. 271pp., b/w plates. Good, insect damage to cloth on cover. / poor d/w.
Price: $25.00


Pitcairn. Children of the Bounty
Ball, Ian M.
Book Number: 67221
ISBN: 
Publisher: Victor Gollancz, London, 1973.
8vo. hardcover. 380pp. index, b/w illus., b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


Man's Conquest of the Pacific : The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Bellwood, Peter.
Book Number: 67207
ISBN: 0195201035
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, 1979.
Small 4to. hardcover. 462pp. index, b/w illus., colour plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $22.00


Harpoon In My Hand
Ruhen, Olaf
Book Number: 66827
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus And Robertson, Sydney, 1966
8vo. hardcover. 183pp. b/w illus. Good, multiple inscription on fep., small stain on the edge of a few pages. / Good+ d/w with some small tears.
Price: $18.00


Anthropology in Oceania. Essays Presented to Ian Hogbin.
Hiatt, L. R. & Jayawardena, C. (eds)
Book Number: 66828
ISBN: 0207122385
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, 1971.
8vo. hardcover. 287pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Fair rubbed d/w chipped on top edge.
Price: $18.00


Nahi'ena'ena, Sacred Daughter Of Hawai'i
Sinclair, Marjorie
Book Number: 66830
ISBN: 0824803671
Publisher: University Press of Hawaii., Honolulu., 1976
8vo. hardcover. 177pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+, light foxing to top edge of text-block. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


Serpent in Paradise
Birkett, Dea
Book Number: 66807
ISBN: 0330343378
Publisher: Picador, London 1997.
8vo. softcover. 297pp. b/w illus. Very good. Acclaimed British travel writer and journalist Dea Birkett, travelled across the Pacific on a cargo ship and became one of the very few outsiders permitted to land on Pitcairn Island.
Price: $12.00


South Sea Islands. A Natural History
Morris, Rod; Ballance, Alison
Book Number: 66497
ISBN: 1552976092
Publisher: Firefly Books, 2003.
Oblong 4to. hardcover. 160pp. index, colour illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


Pitcairn: The Island, The People, And The Pastor. With a Short Account of The Mutiny of the Bounty.
Murray, Rev. Thos. Boyles
Book Number: 65005
ISBN: 
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1954. Fourth edition.
8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 304pp. b/w plates. Good, foxed.
Price: $35.00


JACK LONDON IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
DAY, A. Grove.
Book Number: 64655
ISBN: 0716112016
Publisher: Four Winds Press. New York. 1971.
8vo. hardcover. pages xv, 183, index, map, 19 photos, very good,small mark on edge of text block. / Good d/w with tear and crease on top edge. An account of the two year voyage that Jack London made with his wife in the South Seas, the author was Senior Professor of English at the University of Hawaii and considered the world's foremost authority on the literature of the Pacific in English.
Price: $15.00


Nikolai And The Australian Connnection. A Beief History Of The Life And Achievements Of Nikolai-Nikolaevich de Miklouhou- Maclay
Paton, Wendy
Book Number: 64583
ISBN: 0949648647
Publisher: Woollara Municipal Library 1996.
8vo. softcover. 75pp. b/w illus. Very good, cover faded. Russian Adventurer campaigned for the reights of Pacific Islanders & Papuans against blackbirding.
Price: $15.00


An illustrated Poem, Orara
Kendall, Henry
Book Number: 64042
ISBN: 
Publisher: Melbourne: Art Union of Victoria, 1881
Folio. hardcover, half-leather, gilt edges. Full page plates with tissue guards. Good, foxing throughout, marks on endpapers.
Price: $750.00


Voyaging the Pacific: In Search of the South
Hordern, Miles
Book Number: 63774
ISBN: 9780719564826
Publisher: John Murray, London, 2002.
8vo. softcover. 237pp. colour ilus. Very good.
Price: $10.00


Fiji - Healing the Land through Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Newby, David M.
Book Number: 45884
ISBN: 0975711318
Publisher: Team Ministry International 2005
8vo. Softcover. 152pp. The impact of the Revival in Fiji and its significance for Reconciliation and Healing the Land in Australia.
Price: $11.00


A Primer of Police Motu. (for use in Territory of Papua and New Guinea)
Chatterton, Percy, L.C.P.
Book Number: 52568
ISBN: 
Publisher: Pacific Publications, Sydney. n.d.
8vo. stapled wraps.31pp. Very good, pages browned.
Price: $25.00


Island realm : a Pacific panorama
Todd, Ian.
Book Number: 27662
ISBN: 0207127611
Publisher: Sydney Angus & Robertson 1974
4to hardcover 214pp index, colour & b/w illus, maps. very good / good d/w with small tear at bottom rear spinefold.
Price: $25.00


Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Book Number: 59036
ISBN: 
Publisher: George Routledge, New York 1932
Large 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 527pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, owner's signature on fep.
Price: $125.00


Isles of the Sun.
Barrett, Charles
Book Number: 33954
ISBN: 
Publisher: William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1954. 1st ed.
8vo. hardcover. 258pp. index, b/w illus. very good, light foxing to endpapers. / good d/w.
Price: $18.00


Hawai'i
TenBruggencate, Jan; Peebles, Douglas (photographer)
Book Number: 45677
ISBN: 1566472792
Publisher: Mutual Publishing, Honolulu 2003
Oblong 4to. hardcover. 136pp. colour illus. Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $15.00


Looking Back. OL piksa bilong tiam bipo. A selection og old photographs from Papua New Guinea 1880-1960s
Coutts, Michael
Book Number: 36924
ISBN: 
Publisher: South Pacific Magazine 1990
4to softcover 84pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good.
Price: $15.00


LIFE IN FEEJEE Or, Five Years Among the Cannibals
By A Lady (Mary Wallis)
Book Number: 28792
ISBN: 
Publisher: Suva, Fiji Fiji Museum 1983.
8vo. softcover. 422pp. fold-out map inside rear cover. very good.
Price: $15.00


Fiji: Little India of the Pacific
Coulter, John Wesley
Book Number: 21236
ISBN: 
Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943.
8vo. hardcover. 156pp. index. b/w illus. maps. very good. / good, chipped d/w. '
Price: $15.00


Blazing the Trail: Letters from the North Solomon Mission
McHardy, Rev. Emmett
Book Number: 6035
ISBN: 
Publisher: Rev. T. J. Wade, Sydney, 1935.
8vo. hardcover. 188pp;.+ b/w plates. very good+. / good, chipped d/w with some small tears.
Price: $18.00


Across the South Pacific. Island-hopping from Santiago to Sydney.
Finlay, Ian and Sheppard, Trish
Book Number: 5308
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus and Robertson Australia 1st edition 1981.
Inscribed & signed by Trish Sheppard & Ian Finlay on title page. 8vo. hardcover. 245pp. + colour plates. very good+, minor wear to bottom of spine. / very good d/w with faded spine and top front edge.
Price: $25.00


In the Land of Dohori.
Keelan, Alice J.
Book Number: 5043
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1929
Sm.8vo. 302pp. + b/w plates, frontis. Good, foxing mainly to endpapers and outer page edges. Front board slightly bent.
Price: $15.00


Without Chains, Free. An Historical Narrative of the Philippines.
Joel, Asher:
Book Number: 5041
ISBN: 
Publisher: Social Studies Publications Inc Manila 1977.
8vo. Hard cover. 285pp. Very good. / very good d/w. lightly chipped top edge, Some dye from boards has stained reverse dw.
Price: $18.00


Island of Secrets - the Discovery and Exploration of Easter Island
Machowski, Jacek
Book Number: 5037
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Hale, 1975
8vo. Hardcover. 223pp. + b/w plates. Index. Very good, minor wear to bottom edge, small mark from pastedown and previous owner's name on fep. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


THE DISENCHANTED ISLES. The Story of the Second Revolution in Hawaii.
Wright, Theon
Book Number: 4957
ISBN: 
Publisher: New York, The Dial Press, 1972
Large 8vo. Hardcover. 304pp. + b/w plates. Index. Very good / very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


Itambu!
Selby, David
Book Number: 4954
ISBN: 
Publisher: Currawong Sydney 1st edition 1963.
8vo. Hardcover. 167pp. Index. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / very good d/w. clipped and lightly chipped.
Price: $15.00


PAPUA NEW GUINEA PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE. Story of Official & Family Life in Papua New Guinea From 1951-1975.
CLELAND, Dame Rachel.
Book Number: 2453
ISBN: 
Publisher: Artlook Books. Perth. 1985.
frontis portrait, chapter heading illustrations by Papua New Guinea artist Jon Dangar, 39 photos, e/p maps;hardcover in dust jacket;mint condition. absorbing reading and politically important history.
Price: $15.00



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