Ch. 1. A Pleasant Island -- Ch. 2. Progress Comes to Nauru -- Ch. 3. Nauru's Shadow -- Ch. 4. Living the Myths -- Ch. 5. Science as Story -- Ch. 6. To Love a Cockroach -- Ch. 7. The Market: Master or Servant? -- Ch. 8. The Chimera of Reality
Summary
The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecological stability
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index