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30 Days in the South Pacific, True Stories of Escape to Paradise
• James O'Reilly
• Sean O'Reilly
• Larry Habegger
• ANTHOLOGY
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This anthology, which presents its stories as a month-long journey, features 30 tales of visitors and vagabonds taken in by the South Pacific.
(PAC159, $14.95)
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The Art of Kula
• Shirley F. Campbell
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Campbell explores the cultural significance of Kula, the practice of the exchange of shell values in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea.
(PAC198, $34.95)
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Australasia Map
• Bartholomew Maps
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A colorful map of the region from Australia to Samoa, including Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and many Pacific Islands. At a scale of 1:8.5 million.
(AUS61, $13.95)
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Captain James Cook
• Richard Hough
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A vividly written narrative of the life and three great voyages of Captain Cook. This fine book includes a gripping account of his discoveries throughout the Pacific.
(PAC24, $50.00)
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Coming of Age in Samoa
• Margaret Mead
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A much-debated ethnographic classic, well worth reading for its evocation of life in the American Samoa in the 1920s.
(PAC12, $14.00)
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The Cruise of the Snark
• Jack London
• EXPLORATION
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A facsimile edition of London's richly evocative account of his ambitious 1906-7 voyage aboard a 43-foot ketch from San Francisco to Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tuomotos, Fiji and the Solomon Islands with his wife and two crew. With 119 original photographs of palces and people.
(PAC17, $13.00)
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Desolation Island
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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An Aubrey-Maturin adventure, set in the Pacific and Australia.
(PAC57, $24.00)
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The Diver's Handbook
• Alan Mountain
• GUIDEBOOK
• OUT OF PRINT
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Designed for beginning divers, this illustrated handbook covers everything from equipment and health to conservation.
(DIV26, $24.95)
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The Far Side of the World
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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This tale, set in 1812, features a trip around Cape Horn, with Stephen Maturin, Patrick O'Brian's wonderful opium-addicted naturalist.
(PAC55, $24.00)
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Footprint Diving the World, A Guide to the World's Coral Seas
• Beth Tierney
• Shaun Tierney
• GUIDEBOOK
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An inviting, beautifully illustrated guide, covering 220 dive sites in 19 countries with chapters on Australia and the Pacific, Mexico and Honduras, Egypt, East Africa and the Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Micronesia. Featuring the diving couple's favorite destinations, the book includes a planning guide, practical tips and listing of dive centers, hotels, restaurants and live-aboards.
(OCE102, $29.95)
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Footprint Diving the World, A Guide to the World's Coral Seas
• Beth Tierney
• Shaun Tierney
• GUIDEBOOK
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An inviting, beautifully illustrated guide, covering 220 dive sites in 19 countries with chapters on Australia and the Pacific, Mexico and Honduras, Egypt, East Africa and the Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Micronesia. Featuring the diving couple's favorite destinations, the book includes a planning guide, practical tips and listing of dive centers, hotels, restaurants and live-aboards.
(OCE102, $29.95)
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French Polynesia Map
• IGN
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An excellent map of French Polynesia.
(PAC32, $16.95)
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Gauguin, The Quest for Paradise
• Francoise Colchin
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Concise and beautifully illustrated, this overview of the artist, his work and life features a significant section on his time in Tahiti. The book includes many paintings as well as excerpts from his journals and other writings.
(PAC27, $12.95)
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Guadalcanal, The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
• Richard Frank
• HISTORY
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A comprehensive account of the battle, using a variety of primary sources to flesh out the story of one of the most important battles on the Pacific front during WWII.
(PAC61, $22.00)
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The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paddling the Pacific
• Paul Theroux
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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Here's Theroux at his wickedly funny and open-minded best. The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas.
(PAC03, $15.95)
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Hidden Tahiti & French Polynesia
• Robert F. Kay
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide to Tahiti and French Polynesia, geared for nature-oriented travelers. It includes a survey of culture, history, activities and extensive travel information.
(PAC22, $18.95)
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In the Ring of Fire, A Pacific Basin Journey
• James Houston
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A lyrical narrative of the author's journeys through Japan, Indonesia, Micronesia, Hawaii and California.
(PAC45, $14.95)
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Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft
• Thor Heyerdahl
• F. H. Lyon
• EXPLORATION
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The hugely popular account of a daring 1947 voyage sailing along the Humboldt and Equatorial currents from Peru to Tahiti. Apart from the sheer adventure, Heyerdahl wanted to show the world that Polynesians could have settled the region. With photographs.
(PAC10, $5.99)
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Landfalls of Paradise
• Earl R. Hinz
• GUIDEBOOK
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Aimed at the yachtsman, this cruising guide is also a compact, illustrated overview of 75 ports and island nations throughout the Pacific.
(PAC67, $44.95)
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The Last Navigator: A Young Man, an Ancient Mariner, the Secrets of the Sea
• Steve Thomas
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• OUT OF PRINT
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In this travelogue, Thomas (best known as the host of This Old House), sailed by the stars throughout Micronesia with a master "palau" from the Caroline island of Satawal.
(PAC39, $15.95)
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The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• Daniel Defoe
• LITERATURE
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This edition of the classic story features reproductions of the original wood-cut illustrations and an introduction to the life and times of Defoe. Based on the story of Alexander Selkirk, who was abandoned on the island now named after him.
(PAC29, $14.99)
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Lonely Planet South Pacific
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, detailed practical guide to travel in Micronesia and the South Pacific.
(PAC120, $27.99)
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Memories of War, Micronesians in the Pacific War
• Suzanne Falgout
• HISTORY
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This account of the Pacific perspective on the Second World War relies heavily on the Micronesian oral tradition. Includes numerous inteviews and song lyrics.
(PAC197, $25.00)
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Moon and Sixpence
• Somerset Maugham
• LITERATURE
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Maugham's well-regarded 1919 novel, inspired by the life of Gaugin; it's the powerful story of a man who relinquishes his family to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, eventually moving to the South Pacific.
(PAC16, $12.00)
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Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the "Bounty"
• Greg Dening
• HISTORY
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The story of Captain Bligh and his mutiny is still fertile ground.
(PAC42, $43.00)
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Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas, A Companion to the Bounty Adventure
• Sven Wahlroos
• Rolf Du Rietz
• HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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A chronicle and gazetteer of the voyage of the Bounty
(PAC109, $36.95)
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Mutiny on the Bounty
• James Norman Hall
• Charles Nordhoff
• LITERATURE
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The well-known (and loved) fictional account of the voyage of the HMS Bounty, greatly enjoyable despite its probable lack of accuracy regarding Bligh's personality.
(PAC11, $13.99)
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Nan'Yo, The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945
• Mark R. Peattie
• HISTORY
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A detailed account of Japan's involvement in Southeast Asia until the end of World War II.
(PAC196, $25.00)
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Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands
• Douglas L. Oliver
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A digest of the author's scholarly work on the cultures of the Pacific before contact with Europeans. It's a brief and illuminating overview of native cultures, featuring good descriptions of family life, food, travel, and social relations.
(PAC08, $20.00)
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The New Shape of Old Island Cultures, A Half Century of Social Change in Micronesia
• Francis X. Hezel
• HISTORY
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Drawing on decades of experience in the region, Hezel assesses the most striking changes to have swept over the islands in the past fifty years.
(PAC194, $22.00)
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Noa Noa, The Tahiti Journal
• Paul Gauguin
• John Miller
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Gauguin's journals from Tahiti, originally published by the author in 1818. With gorgeous reproductions of watercolors and etchings alongside the artist's impressions of two years in French Polynesia.
(PAC13, $19.95)
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Nutmeg of Consolation
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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Further adventures of Captain Aubrey & Co., shipwrecked in the Dutch East Indies, and finding their way to the penal colony at Botany Bay in the early 19th Century.
(AUS69, $24.00)
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The Ocean World
• Jacques Cousteau
• NATURAL HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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The classic gorgeously illustrated overview of ocean life by Jacques Cousteau and his team.
(OCE40, $34.98)
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Okinawa, The Last Battle of World War II
• Ross Leckie
• HISTORY
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A fast-paced history of the battle as witnessed by participants on both sides.
(PAC60, $15.00)
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Pacific Ocean Map
• HEMA Maps
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A map of the Pacific at a scale of 1:24 million with detailed maps of individual islands and island groups.
(PAC52, $8.95)
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Pioneers of the Pacific, Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810
• Nigel Rigby
• EXPLORATION
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(PAC166, $26.95)
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Pouliuli
• Albert Wendt
• LITERATURE
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A celebrated novel of village life and power and myth by the noted Samoan writer.
(PAC19, $10.00)
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Robinson Crusoe
• Daniel Defoe
• LITERATURE
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It's worth revisiting this classic before exploring Selkirk Island.
(PAC30, $8.00)
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Serpent in Paradise
• Dea Birkett
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Intrigued by legends and romance, journalist Dea Birkett gets herself to three-square-mile Pitcairn Island for a sojourn among the descendents of Captain Bligh's mutinous crew.
(PAC28, $12.95)
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
• J. Maarten Troost
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Dragged unwittingly with his wife to Kiribati, the author settled down to explore the island and its eccentric inhabitants in this hilarious, disturbing first book. It's a fascinating, decidedly unromantic glimpse into island life.
(PAC146, $12.95)
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Song for the Blue Ocean, Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
• Carl Safina
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A grand tour of our blue planet, divided geographically, this book is an excellent resource -- fascinating to read and full of hope. It combines a personal journey, hundreds of interviews with fisherman and scientists around the world, and a tour of important watery habitats.
(OCE09, $18.00)
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South Sea Tales
• Jack London
• LITERATURE
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London draws on his voyages aboard the Snark in 1907-09 though Polynesia and the Solomons for these eight tales, vividly evoking the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific.
(PAC85, $11.95)
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South Sea Tales
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• LITERATURE
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Towards the end of his life in the late 19th century, Robert Louis Stevenson lived in Samoa and traveled widely around the South Pacific. These entertaining tales, set among both real and mythical islands, show Stevenson's keen observations of island life.
(PAC15, $14.95)
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Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
• Alberto Manguel
• LITERATURE
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Manguel (A History of reading) evokes Robert Louis Stevenson and his years in the South Seas in this meditative novella set in Samoa.
(PAC158, $18.00)
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Strangers in Their Own Land, A Century of Colonial Rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands
• Francis X. Hezel
• HISTORY
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(PAC195, $27.00)
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Tales of the South Pacific
• James A. Michener
• LITERATURE
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The first of the big Michener novels, set in World War II Polynesia. It's great fun, and the basis for the Rogers & Hammerstein musical "South Pacific."
(PAC18, $7.99)
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Treasure Island
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• LITERATURE
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The famous adventure story inspired by the Isla de Coco.
(PAC25, $8.95)
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The Truelove
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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More terrific Aubrey & Maturin, set in the Pacific.
(PAC53, $24.00)
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Typee, A Peep at Polynesian Life
• Herman Melville
• LITERATURE
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The most popular of Melville's books during his lifetime, this partly autobiographical work first published in 1846 tells the story of Tommo, a Yankee sailor who jumps ship and enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas.
(PAC14, $12.95)
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Typee, Omoo, Mardi
• Herman Melville
• LITERATURE
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Melville's South Pacific trilogy featuring a Yankee sailor who jumps ship and enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas.
(PAC62, $40.00)
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We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
• David Lewis
• EXPLORATION
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This engaging classic examines how Stone Age Polynesians may have navigated the Pacific. The scholarly volume will appeal to seafarers and modern Pacific travelers.
(PAC35, $29.95)
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Where to Watch Birds in Australasia and Oceania
• Nadia Wheatley
• REFERENCE
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A guide to 200 birdy places throughout Australasia .
(PAC54, $62.50)
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The Wine-Dark Sea
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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Further adventures of Captain Aubrey and his friend Maturin, set in the Pacific.
(PAC56, $24.00)
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