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These 4 items are available for $69, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPAC68A)

Moon Handbook South Pacific  •  David Stanley GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 976 PAGES A comprehensive guide to the South Pacific from French Polynesia to Tonga, Fiji and Easter Island by a veteran guidebook writer. (PAC100, $24.95)
The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paddling the Pacific  •  Paul Theroux EXPLORATION •  2006 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES • FAVORITE Here's Theroux at his best: wickedly funny, open-minded and enormously well informed. In this best-selling book, he flies off to Australia with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia as well. This book is a terrific introduction to the region, combining history, anecdote and acutely observed detail on people and place. (PAC03, $15.95)
A History of the Pacific Islands  •  Ian Campbell HISTORY •  1990 •  PAPER  • 239 PAGES A brief, authoritative history of the Pacific Islands from earliest habitation, through European influence, to the emergence of modern independent island nations by a professor at the University of Canterbury. (PAC04, $21.95)
South Pacific Islands Map  •  Nelles MAP A handy overview of the Pacific from Pitcairn to Papua New Guinea at a scale of 1:3,000,000. With 30 individual island maps, including Easter Island, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Marquesas, French Polynesia, Vanuatu and Fiji. (PAC164, $10.95)

Pacific Ocean Map  •  HEMA Maps    •  A map of the Pacific at a scale of 1:24 million with detailed maps of individual islands and island groups. (PAC52, $8.95)
Reference Map of Oceania, the Pacific Islands of Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia  •  James A. Bier   • COMING IN AUGUST  •  NEW EDITION NOW DELAYED UNTIL JULY 2008. This outstanding double-sided map shows both an overview of the western Pacific at a scale of 1:17,460,000 and 52 detailed inset maps of the principal islands and island chains (PAC07, $9.95)
Lonely Planet Samoan Islands & Tonga  •  Michelle Bennett   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical, comprehensive guide in the popular series. (PAC136, $21.99)
Lonely Planet South Pacific  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, detailed practical guide to travel in Micronesia and the South Pacific. (PAC120, $27.99)
Lonely Planet Vanuatu & New Caledonia  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide book to the region with 47 maps, a good cultural overview and much practical information. (PAC99, $24.99)
Tahiti & French Polynesia Guide  •  Jan Prince   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An authoritative, in-depth guide to exploring all French Polynesia, including the little-discovered Austral Islands and the alluring Marquesas. (PAC169, $22.95)
A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands  •  John Chambers   • HISTORY  •  Organized chronologically, this concise overview includes line drawings, maps and ample coverage of the South Pacific. (NZL60, $14.95)
Pacific Journeys  •  Peter Hendrie   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A striking portfolio of 330 color photographs of the people, nature and landscape of the region, Hendrie's gorgeous book includes images from his many journeys to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, to Tahiti and the Marquesas, Tonga, Fiji, Easter Island and Hawaii over the last 20 years. (PAC183, $45.00)
Oceania, Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  Eric Kjellgren   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  (PAC206, $45.00)
Oceanic Art  •  Nicholas Thomas   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A concise, cogent and colorful overview of the gorgeous art of the Pacific Islands. Organized thematically with 182 illustrations, 26 in color. (PAC06, $18.95)
On the Road of the Winds  •  Patrick Vinton Kirch   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  An excellent scholarly review of the prehistory and archaeology of Pacific civilizations before European contact. (PAC101, $35.95)
Blue Latitudes, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before  •  Tony Horwitz   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A vivid tale of modern adventure, history and fun in the wake of Captain Cook. Horwitz paints a broad picture of the explorer and his time, capturing the places and personalities Cook encountered in his daring voyages around the world. (EXP31, $15.00)
Captain James Cook  •  Richard Hough   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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, $18.95)
Cook, The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook  •  Nicholas Thomas   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Anthropologist Thomas (Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London) looks at Captain James Cook's life in the larger story of worldly transformation in the late 18th century, an era of the expansion of minds as well as empire, for concepts of science, geography, and ethnology were changing. (EXP61, $28.00)
Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft  •  Thor Heyerdahl  •  F. H. Lyon   • EXPLORATION  •  The hugely popular account of a daring 1947 voyage sailing along the Humboldt and Equatorial currents from Peru to Tahiti. Apart from the sherr adventure, Heyerdahl wanted to show the world that Polynesians could have settled the region. With photogaphs. (PAC10, $5.99)
Tales from the Torrid Zone, Travels in the Deep Tropics  •  Alexander Frater   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Born in Vanuatu, Frater (Chasing the Monsoon) is most at home among scattered islands and tropical outposts, confining himself to the wide zone between the Topic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn in this engaging account. (PAC172, $14.95)
The Cruise of the Snark  •  Jack London   • EXPLORATION  •  Jack London's remarkable account of his ambitious 1906-7 cruise, in which he set out from San Francisco with his wife and two crew, and sailed to Hawaii, the Marquesas and the Solomon Islands. (PAC17, $13.00)
The Fragile Edge, Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific  •  Julia Whitty   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Whitty's memoir of adventures underwater and travel in Rangiroa, Tuvalu and Moorea weaves impressions and philosophy with an account of coral reef ecology and Polynesian peoples. (PAC173, $14.95)
The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific  •  J. Maarten Troost   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
The Shark God, Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific  •  Charles Montgomery   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A wry account of travels in the footsteps of the author's missionary great-grandfather in the Solomon Islands, revealing the legacy of Christianity and traditional Melanesian religion. (PAC182, $17.00)
Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific  •  R. K. Howe   • EXPLORATION  •  This richly illustrated collection of scholarly articles on Pacific voyaging, past and present, features 400 color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and diagrams, along with contributions by Ben Finney, Sam Low, Anne Salmond and other experts. (PAC177, $59.00)
We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific  •  David Lewis   • EXPLORATION  •  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, $27.95)
Where Fate Beckons, The Life of Jean-Francois de La Perouse  •  John Dunmore   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Second in a series, this lively, short biography traces the life and discoveries of the great 18th-century explorer of the Pacific. (PAC213, $24.95)
30 Days in the South Pacific, True Stories of Escape to Paradise  •  James O'Reilly  •  Sean O'Reilly  •  Larry Habegger   • ANTHOLOGY  •  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)
Mister Pip  •  Lloyd Jones   • LITERATURE  •  Jones sets his poignant tale of children, teachers and the transcendent power of storytelling in the midst of the 1990s civil war in Bougainville that pitched the islanders against the government of Papua New Guinea. He spins magic with gunfire and Great Expectations. (PNG22, $12.00)
Mutiny on the Bounty  •  James Norman Hall  •  Charles Nordhoff   • LITERATURE  •  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)
Mutiny on the Bounty  •  Charles Laughton   • LITERATURE  •  Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone were each nominated for an academy awards for thier performances in this classic 1935 adaptation of Charles Nordhorf's sea saga. (PAC199, $19.97)
South Sea Tales  •  Jack London   • LITERATURE  •  Drawn largely from his cultural experiences in the Pacific, this is a dark collection of London's tales about the South Sea. Originally published in 1911, the collection includes "Mauki" and "The Terrible Solomans." (PAC85, $7.95)
Tales of the South Pacific  •  James A. Michener   • LITERATURE  •  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)
Typee, A Peep at Polynesian Life  •  Herman Melville   • LITERATURE  •  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)
Ocean Duets  •  Michele Westmoreland  •  Sylvia Earle   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  This stunning portfolio of color photographs celebrates the diversity of marine life. (OCE107, $12.95)
Planet Ocean, A Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm  •  Laurent Ballesta  •  Pierre Descamp  •  Jean-Michel Cousteau   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A dizzyingly colorful tour of marine life, featuring 25 expert essays and 400 color photographs. Ballesta's exquisite portraits celebrate the diversity of life under the sea, from bizarre Antarctic fish and odd benthic creatures to multi-colored reef beauties, turtles, sharks and rays. (OCE115, $40.00)
The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean  •  Paddy Ryan  •  Peter Atkinson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The best-selling, take-along guide to coral reefs, coral reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific. With 200 color photographs. (DIV18, $19.95)
Water Light Time  •  David Doubilet   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The master of underwater photography presents 200 magnificent color photographs spanning the world's oceans and seas in this elegant, oversized collection. (OCE106, $29.95)
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific  •  H. Douglas Pratt   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An outstanding field guide with chapters on the islands and habitats, superb color plates and a checklist of birds by island group. (HWI32, $45.00)
Flowers of the Pacific Island Seashore  •  W. Arthur Whistler   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A photographic field guide to the seaside plants found throughout the Pacific islands, including Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Fiji and Micronesia. Includes an island-by-island checklist. (PAC20, $19.00)
Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide  •  Gerald Allen  •  Roger Steene   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN  •  This comprehensive identification guide to coral reef fishes and invertebrates from Hawaii to the Red Sea features 1,800 color photographs. (DIV48, $40.00)
Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific, New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands  •  John Randall   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This extraordinary handbook by leading authority John Randall features 2,018 color illustrations of South Pacific fishes. (PAC161, $75.00)
Reef Fish Identification, Tropical Pacific  •  Paul Humann  •  Ned Deloach  •  Gerald Allen  •  Roger Steene   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive guide to Indo-Pacific reef fishes, featuring 2,500 color photographs of 2,000 species. (DIV49, $45.00)