Cultural Region/Oceania
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The Sea Chest
$12.99 Add to cartThe Sea Chest is a visceral, moving, and emotionally layered account of life in the aftermath of loss. In 2017, Kerry Greer’s husband Gabriel ended his life with horrific violence, dying on the kitche
- Author: Greer, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0645651338
- Language: English
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Shore Fishes of Hawaii: Revised Edition
$23.99 Add to cartThis new edition of Shore Fishes of Hawai’i updates our knowledge of Hawaiian fishes and has been expanded to include 372 species. All are illustrated by the author’s 475 superb photographs. The most … [more below]
- Series: Latitude 20 Books (Paperback)
- Author: Randall, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0824834275
- Language: English
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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
$39.58 Add to cartAn award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.
One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal
The islands of … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619838
- Language: English
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Tupaia: Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator
$19.95 Add to cartTupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship’s translator. Lauded by Europeans as an “extraordinary genius,” Tupaia was a star navigator
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0995130906
- Language: English
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Invasion Rabaul: The Epic Story of Lark Force, the Forgotten Garrison, January-July 1942
$24.99 Add to cartThe riveting first book in Bruce Gamble’s critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover entitled Darkest Hour, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II. January 23,
- Series: Rabaul Trilogy #01
- Author: Gamble, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0760345910
- Language: English
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Dirty Pretty Things: Volume 1
$16.99 Add to cartDirty Pretty Things is the international bestseller by Michael Faudet. A finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards, his whimsical and often erotic writing has already captured the hearts an… [more below]
- Series: Michael Faudet #1
- Author: Faudet, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1449481000
- Language: English
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History of New Zealand: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Land of the Long White Cloud, from the Polynesians Through the Māori Mu
$24.99 Add to cartDid you know New Zealand was the first country to offer universal suffrage?
Many people today only started dreaming of visiting New Zealand after discovering it was the beautiful filming place of the L
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 17 2023
- ISBN10: 163716873X
- Language: English
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Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator
$26.99 Add to cartSince the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until no… [more below]
- Author: Colby, Jason M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0190088362
- Language: English
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Lullabies: Volume 2
$16.99 Read moreA sequel to the hugely popular, best-selling Love & Misadventure, Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss.
Set to a musical theme, love’s poetic journey in this new, original c- Series: Lang Leav #2
- Author: Leav, Lang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1449461077
- Language: English
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Love & Misadventure 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition: Volume 1
$24.99 Read moreAn elegant hardcover collector’s edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal a… [more below]
- Series: Lang Leav
- Author: Leav, Lang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1524886521
- Language: English
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Singapore Cooking: Fabulous Recipes from Asia’s Food Capital
$15.99 Add to cart“New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Singapore’s the city that never stops eating. For a gastro-tourist, somebody who travels to eat, any kind of serious eater, Singapore’s probably the be… [more below]
- Author: Tan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0804854505
- Language: English
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Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of a N.A. Salvage Tug
$30.00 Add to cartThe hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service in the North Atlantic.
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1585742406
- Language: English
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New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary
$9.99 Add to cartIn a compact and portable format, this dictionary contains more than ten thousand entries, a welcome chapter on grammar explained in non-technical terms, and a pronunciation guide.
- Author: Pukui, Mary Kawena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0824813928
- Language: English
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The Universe of Us: Volume 4
$16.99 Read moreInternational best-selling author of Love & Misadventure, Lullabies (Goodreads Readers Choice Award), and Memories Lang Leav presents a completely new collection of poetry with a celestial theme in Th… [more below]
- Series: Lang Leav #4
- Author: Leav, Lang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1449480128
- Language: English
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Kon-Tiki
$8.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific.
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure–a journey of 4,300 nautica- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Heyerdahl, Thor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0671726528
- Language: English
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Poukahangatus: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed young poet explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desi… [more below]
- Author: Tibble, Tayi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593467892
- Language: English
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Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth from Hawaii
$12.99 Add to cartA colorful illustration of Hawaii’s most cherished origin story, the myth of Pele and Hiiaka.
Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii (1915) is a collection of folktales by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Drawing fr
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Emerson, Nathaniel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1513299689
- Language: English
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
$28.00 Add to cartA monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea–revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how go
- Author: Paine, Lincoln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1101970359
- Language: English
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The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1996, a revered Hawaiian elder befriended an American anthropologist, and from their rare and intimate rapport, something miraculous emerged. Through the words and teachings of the kahuna wisdom-ke
- Author: Wesselman, Hank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1604074302
- Language: English
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
$19.00 Read more“A treasure of a book.”–David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the N- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004839
- Language: English
