Category: Australia & New Zealand

Kauai and its sister island of Niihau are the most isolated of the main Hawaiian islands. From the next island of Oahu, they lie across the powerful Kaieie channel, whose storms and swells are legendary. These ancient islands pierced the surface of the Pacific five million years ago. Wind and water have worn them down and, in the case of Kauai, left it a green wonderland. Waialeale, at its heart, is known as the wettest spot on the planet and, from the dense mountain forests of this upland, rivers flow out in every direction. The island has an old culture and a modern one. It has natural ...
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Let The Sea Make A Noise: A History Of The North Pacific From Magellan To Macarthur

By: Mcdougall, Walter A.

Price: $3.93 USD

Publisher: Basic Books : 1993-10-05

Seller ID: 0465051529-3-24196785

ISBN-13: 9780465051526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Lonely Planet Sydney Condensed (Condensed Guides)

By: Hall, Nikki; Valent, Dani

Price: $4.20 USD

Publisher: Lonely Planet : 2000-04-01

Seller ID: 186450045X-3-26352812

ISBN-13: 9781864500455

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

This pocket guide to Sydney includes an eight page section on the Olympics covering the events, venues and transport, plus a history of the Games. It offers must-see sights and attractions in an easy to use format, and detailed maps on walking tours and tips on where to take the kids.
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Samoan Village: Then and Now (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

By: Holmes, Lowell D.; Holmes, Ellen Rhoads

Price: $3.93 USD

Publisher: Harcourt College Pub : 1992-01-01

Seller ID: 0030316928-4-25074020

ISBN-13: 9780030316920

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The Fatal Shore

By: Hughes, Robert

Price: $3.77 USD

Publisher: Knopf : 1986-12-12

Seller ID: 0394506685-3-19684652

ISBN-13: 9780394506685

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

The Fatal Shore

By: Hughes, Robert

Price: $3.77 USD

Publisher: Knopf : 1986-12-12

Seller ID: 0394506685-4-19339440

ISBN-13: 9780394506685

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939-42

By: Day, David

Price: $3.99 USD

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. : 1989-04-01

Seller ID: 039302685X-3-25925010

ISBN-13: 9780393026856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

The Pacific War Atlas 1941-1945

By: Smurthwaite, David

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Checkmark Books : 1995-01-01

Seller ID: 0816032866-3-26859839

ISBN-13: 9780816032860

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Informative maps illustrate the evolution of U.S. strategy, the Japanese strikes and invasions, the fall of the Philippines, naval battles, air raids, civilian and military casualties, and more.
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

By: Troost, J. Maarten

Price: $4.89 USD

Publisher: Broadway Books : 2004-06-08

Seller ID: 0767915305-11-16089878

ISBN-13: 9780767915304

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost--who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs--decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better. The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise ...
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The Tiwi of North Australia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

By: Charles William Merton Hart; Arnold R. Pilling; Jane C. Goodale

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Cengage Learning : 1987-12-01

Seller ID: 0030120195-3-19388095

ISBN-13: 9780030120190

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

An examination of the Tiwi culture from the late 1920s to the 1980s that provides a picture of cultural change and modernization in a hunting and food gathering tribe. The first half focuses on marriage contracts and their relationship to other aspects of Tiwi social structure, and the second half examines the Tiwi's response to modern influences.
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This Living Reef (A Prairie House/Rapoport book)

By: Douglas Faulkner; Douglas Faulkner [Photographer]

Price: $6.82 USD

Publisher: Quadrangle/ The New York Times Book Co. : 1974-01-01

Seller ID: 0812904559-4-21302319

ISBN-13: 9780812904550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

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Category: Australia & New Zealand