Reference Map of Oceania
Completely revised and updated with enhanced readability, James A. Bier's ""Reference Map of Oceania"" is the most comprehensive Pacific map in existence. Its main map and 52 inset maps of all major parts of the...
Pala Pala : färd mot atollen
Tre unga män med helt olika bakgrund möts på Kastrup. De bordar ett plan som är destinerat till Hongkong, där de ska mönstra på båten M/S Igadi. Redan på väg ut mot fartyget som ligger till ankars, får de tre unga männen syn på...
Julia
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc an...
Inventing 'Easter Island'
Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the f...
Blazing Star, Setting Sun
From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign at the height of World War II. Cox's previous book, Morning Star, Rising Sun, had found the US Navy at ...
The Hiker's Guide to the Hawaiian Islands
Written in the same accessible style and format as the highly successful The Hikers Guide to Oahu, this volume is a detailed and fully illustrated guide to the best day hikes on the Big Island, Kauai, Maui, and Oahu. Each island is represented by ...
Victory Fever on Guadalcanal
Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to const...
DK Eyewitness Chile and Easter Island
Whether you want to hike the soaring peaks of Torres del Paine, soak in the hot springs of Pucn or lose yourself in Santiago's fine arts museums, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Chile and Easter Island h...
Små bitar av lycka
En varm berättelse om vänskap, kärlek och choklad.Jag har planterat mina fötter djupt i jorden här på Fiji, och jag tänker stanna här till min sista solnedgång. Kom och håll mig sällskap? Lämna allt som inte fungerade bakom er!När Sina, Maya, Ingr...
Dark Waters, Starry Skies
Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally m...
Pieces of Happiness
Ive planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why dont you join me? Leave behind everything that didnt work out! When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with he...
The Sex Lives Of Cannibals
Fantasized about quitting the 9-5? Walking away from credit card debt and student loans? Think living in the South Pacific for two years sounds like a perfect solution and perhaps even a winning idea for your first novel? Maarten Troost does...
Represented Communities
In 1983 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that "print capitalism" fostered nations as imagined communities in a modular form that became the culture ...
The Seven Dawns of the Aumakua
In Hawaiian spiritual tradition the sacred bond formed between the land and its people is reinforced in every new generation by the voices of the ancestors who pass on this inheritance. Just as elders are the intermediaries between these ancestral...
Under the Wave at Waimea
From renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing, privilege and mortality'It was as if in surfing he was carving his name in water, invisibly, joyously.'Joe Sharkey knows he is p...
Lonely Planet Hawaii the Big Island
Lonely Planet's Hawaii, the Big Island is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience island culture, stargaze on Mauna Kea and snorkel in Kealakekua Bay...
Lonely Planet Maui
Lonely Planet's Maui is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch the sunrise at Haleakala National Park, twist and wind around the roller-coaster road to H...
Narrow Corner
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Kanda, the trio meet good-n...
Maya
A mysterious novel by the author of the international bestseller SOPHIE'S WORLD.A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author w...
Okinawa: The History of an Island People
"e;[Okinawa: The History of an Island People is] a book that answers the questions of the curious layman, satisfies the standards of critical scholarship, and is readable and fascinating besides. --American Historical Review"e;
DK Eyewitness Hawaii
Whether you want to admire Hawaii's fiery volcanoes or explore i ts diverse coastlines, uncover history at Pearl Harbour or discover vibrant cities like Honolulu, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Hawaii has to off...
Lonely Planet Honolulu Waikiki & Oahu
Lonely Planet's Honolulu, Waikiki & Oahu is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Try the hula, snorkel turquoise waters, or enjoy stunning ocean view...
Hawaii / Honolulu / Oahu
Landkarte mit Schummerung, Nebenkarten, Stadtplänen, touristischen Sehenswürdigkeiten, Kilometrierung.
Lonely Planet Kauai
Lonely Planet's Kauai is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Zip around sea caves on the Na Pali Coast, absorb Grand Canyon vistas in Waimea Canyon, and sur...
Adventuring in Hawaii
This guide to the many outdoor activities available all year round in Hawaii features: hiking, backpacking, cycling and mountain biking, snorkelling, scuba diving, surfing, windsurfing, kayaking, hunting and fishing. Covering all six of the main i...
Fodor's Oahu
Whether you want to visit beautiful Waikiki Beach, surf the big waves on the North Shore, or snorkel at Hanauma Bay, the local Fodors travel experts in Hawaii are here to help! Fodors Oahu guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommend...
Developing a Dream Destination
Developing a Dream Destination is an interpretive history of tourism and tourism policy development in Hawai'i from the 1960s to the twenty-first century. Part 1 looks at the many changes in tourism since statehood (1959) and tourism&...
Royal Hawaiian Featherwork
Painstakingly constructed by hand of plant fiber and precious feathers from endemic birds of Hawai'i, feather cloaks and capes provided spiritual protection to Hawaiian chiefs for centuries while proclaiming their royal status. Few of the...
Lonely Planet Rarotonga, Samoa & Tonga
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Rarotonga, Samoa & Tonga is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Surf the swells around th...
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Moon Tahiti (7th ed)
South Pacific expert David Stanley knows the best way to vacation in Tahiti, from browsing the Papeete market to snorkeling off the island of Moorea. This guide includes unique trip ideas like The Best of French Polynesia and Underwater in the Tua...
Private Island
'Paradise with a side of poison' B.M. Carroll 'More twists than a dry martini' Petronella McGovern ??? ??? ??? New Year's Eve, Loloma Island, Fiji. At one of the most exclusive island resorts in the Pacific ocean, the countdown to new year is just...
Making the Modern Primitive
Making the Modern Primitive provides an anthropological analysis of the encounter between local residents and tourists in the Trobriand Islands, a place renowned in anthropology and represented in various media as ""culturally au...
Utmost Savagery
On November 20, l943, in the first trial by fire of America's fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, five thousand men stormed the beaches of Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress barely the size of the Pentagon parking lots (thr...
Holy Moli
Hob Osterlund moved to Hawaii after being visited in a dream by an ancestor, Martha Beckwith, author of the monumental classic, Hawaiian Mythology. It was there, on the island of Kauai, where she happened upon a few courting albatross and felt an ...
Inalienable Possessions
Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Pa...
The Bismarck Archipelago Art
The first book devoted to the art of the vast South Seas island groups in the Bismarck Archipelago. This book features stunning, ephemeral creations made with natural materials such as plant fibre, light woods, bark cloth, and tree pith - among th...
