Cultural Region/Oceania
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A Concise History of New Zealand
$34.00 Read moreNew Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Mein Smith, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1107402174
- Language: English
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
$23.99 Add to cartThe dramatic history of America’s tropical paradise
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals–from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy- Author: Moore, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536171
- Language: English
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Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen
$22.99 Add to cartHawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen (1898) is an autobiography by Lili’uokalani. Published in 1898, the book was written in the aftermath of Lili’uokalani’s attempt to appeal on behalf of her people to P
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Lili’uokalani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1513209027
- Language: English
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Pulutan! Filipino Bar Bites, Appetizers and Street Eats: (Filipino Cookbook with Over 60 Easy-To-Make Recipes)
$14.99 Read morePulutan: finger foods, appetizers, bar snacks and street foods best enjoyed alongside an alcoholic drink.
Tart and refreshing seafood ceviche spritzed with citrus, tender pork meatballs in spicy cocon- Author: Gapultos, Marvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0804849420
- Language: English
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The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand & Its Treaty
$26.99 Add to cartNew Zealand to many is ‘Middle Earth’, home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it was also the last major land mass on the planet to be settled by humans. The country was catapulted kicking and scr… [more below]
- Author: Wishart, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: May 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0987657364
- Language: English
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
$16.00 Add to cartHumans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environme… [more below]
- Author: Flannery, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139434
- Language: English
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945
$25.99 Add to cartSea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought.Told from both the American and Japane
- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0743252225
- Language: English
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Birds of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the only comprehensive and handy pocket guide that illustrates and describes the bird species of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific. Featuring more than 750 species illustra
- Series: Princeton Illustrated Checklists
- Author: Van Perlo, Ber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0691151881
- Language: English
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Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression
$15.00 Add to cartIn 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the “Black Dog” (as
- Author: Murray, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374181063
- Language: English
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Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure on the Coast of Molokai
$16.95 Read moreGo Simple, Go Solo, Go Now
In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. A
- Author: Sutherland, Audrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1938340760
- Language: English
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Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki
$24.99 Add to cartIn Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Kānaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and
- Series: Indigenous Pacifics
- Author: Case, Emalani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 082488681X
- Language: English
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Easy Hawaiian Cookbook: 70 Simple Recipes for a Taste of the Islands
$16.99 Add to cartBring home the flavors of Hawai’i
Hawaiian food is delicious, uncomplicated, and has a long history of bringing people together. And now you can make authentic Hawaiian meals at home, no matter where h
- Author: Aiona, Chef Philip Ippy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1638780676
- Language: English
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What We Bury at Night: Disposable Humanity
$14.95 Add to cartThe fate of Micronesia is the fate of Sustainable Humanity. Micronesia is last domino in the quest to globalize the Earth into a singular monoculture. It is the region least affected by the increasi… [more below]
- Author: Aguon, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: February 15 2008
- ISBN10: 4902837676
- Language: English
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From Unincorporated Territory [Lukao]
$17.95 Add to cartfrom unincorporated territory lukao] is the fourth book in native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez’s ongoing series about his homeland, the Western Pacific Island of Gu han (Guam), and his current ho… [more below]
- Author: Perez, Craig Santos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 163243041X
- Language: English
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The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
$20.00 Add to cartStretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine spe
- Author: McCalman, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535345
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Tahiti
$13.50 Add to cartRomance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave a rousing welcome to the 18th-century European adventurers who discovered the island. It was not just
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0992258855
- Language: English
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
$38.00 Add to cartDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war–from the creator and host of the podcast
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0316309850
- Language: English
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Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai’i
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai’i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Wi… [more below]
- Author: Coffman, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361973
- Language: English
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Place Names of Hawaii: Revised and Expanded Edition
$18.99 Add to cartHow many place names are there in the Hawaiian Islands? Even a rough estimate is impossible. Hawaiians named taro patches, rocks, trees, canoe landings, resting places in the forests, and the tiniest
- Author: Pukui, Mary Kawena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 1976
- ISBN10: 0824805240
- Language: English
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
$20.00 Add to cartAt 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 t… [more below]
- Author: Troost, J. Maarten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0767915305
- Language: English
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