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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester

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Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The...
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Beyond the Sea
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Beyond the Sea
by Michael Moran

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This text presents a romantic and adventurous look at the remarkably diverse cultures of the hidden paradise islands surrounding Papua New Guinea. The islands of the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas were the last inhabited places on earth to be explored...
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Krakatoa
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Krakatoa
by Simon Winchester

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On 27th August 1883 the most terrifying volcanic eruption occurred on the island of Krakatoa, five miles off the western tip of Java. The island was destroyed and almost 40,000 people were killed. The impact was truly global: ships sailing in the Red Sea...
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Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge (New Americanists)
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Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge (New Americanists)
by Rob Wilson

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In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the Pacific Rim in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Reimagining the American...
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Krakatoa the Day the World Exploded
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Krakatoa the Day the World Exploded
by Simon Winchester

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In August 1883 there was a series of volcanic eruptions on the island of Krakatoa - these were so extreme that the effects were heard and felt over ten per cent of the Earth's surface. This text uses contemporaneous reports to recount the events leading...
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Typee
by Herman Melville

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is a mid-19th century novel by author Herman Melville. Largely based on his own personal experiences as a beach comber in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. Although today Moby Dick is the most popular title by Melville,...
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Polynesian Researches: Society Islands, Tubuai Islands & New Zealand
by William Ellis

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Lahaina: Royal Capital of Hawaii
by Roy Nickerson



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Fiji & the Fijians Volume 1
by Thomas Williams



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Hawaii's Royal History
by J. Patrick O'connell



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Aquino
by Mel White



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Island Administration in the South West Pacific: Government and Reconstruction in New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and the British Solomon Islands
by Cyril S. Belshaw



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Tahiti Handbook
by Jean Louis Saquet



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Blood on Their Banner Nationalist Strugg
by David Robie



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Paradise Limited: An Informal History of the Fabulous Hawaiians
by Thomas Blake Clark



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