Title More pacific island portraits / edited by Deryck Scarr

Published Canberra : Australian National University Press ; Norwalk, Conn. : [distributed by] Books Australia, 1978 i.e. 1979

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Description viii, 297 : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm Contents 1. The fortunes of the Naisilines : portrait of a chieftainship / Kerry Howe -- 2. Charles St. Julian : alternative diplomacy in Polynesia / Marion Nothling -- 3. Bouarate of Hienghène : great chief in New Caledonia / Nronwen Douglas -- 4. A Yankee trader in Yap : Crayton Philo Holcomb / Francis X. Hezel -- 5. Kirsome and Tema : Samoan pastors in the Ellice Islands / Doug Munro -- 6. John Bates Thurston : grand Panjandrum of the Pacific / Deryck Scarr -- 7. Captain Hernsheim : Pacific venturer, merchant prince / Stewart Firth -- 8. Henry Nanpei : pre-eminently a Ponapean / Paul Ehrlich -- 9. The last opportunity : Robert Louis Stevenson and Samoa, 1889-1894 / Kenneth Mackenzie -- 10. Apolosi R. Nawai : the man from Ra / Tim Macnaught -- 11. Charles Morris Woodford : adventurer, naturalist, administrator / Ian Heath -- 12. Grimble of the Gilbert Islands : myth and man / Barrie Macdonald -- 13. Hipour and the star path navigators / David Lewis Summary Collection of 13 essays about people who lived in the Pacific Islands during the past 150 years Notes Index Maps on lining papers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index SUBJECT Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004833 Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004833 Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Islands of the Pacific. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 Author Scarr, Deryck. LC no. 77095353 ISBN 0708118011 0708118046 (paperback)

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