Beyond the Capes - Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the 'Challenger', 1776-1877 by Ernest S. Dodge
$16.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: good-very good
A Dream of the South Seas - In the Kingdom of Tonga by Michael Schirmer
$14.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Coronation edition, published to commemorate the coronation of King George Tupou V, 1 August 2008
Voyages of Discovery - Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Lynne Withey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Pacific Sail - Four Centuries of Western Ships in the Pacific by Roger Morris
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
Highly detailed and accurate paintings and illustrations, representing a wide selection of sailing ships that plied the Pacific over four centuries; most of which are in full-color; each vessel is realistically depicted and accompanied by extensive text.
Fatal Impact - An account of a invasion of the South Pacific by Alan Moorehead
$12.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Penguin Classic History S. | Reading Level: good-very good
In this work, Alan Moorehead tells the tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour, in which good intentions led to disaster, corruption and annihilation. And ironically it was Cook, the greatest and most humane explorer of his day, who was to cause the fatal impact.
The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768 by John Dunmore (Editor); Louis Antoine de Bougainville
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 9 | Reading Level: very good
The French entered the Pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a Spanish preserve until British navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid 1760s. France's concerns that Britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed Louis de Bougainville's vo ...Show more
From a South Seas Diary 1938-1942 by Harry Luke
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Gathering for God - George Brown in Oceania by Helen Bethea Gardner
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Combining 'the gathering of artefacts with the gathering of souls', George Brown was a key figure in the Christian, and especially the Wesleyan Methodist, history of nineteenth-century Oceania. Using his life as a case study, Helen Bethea Gardner examines the role of Christian missionaries in the Pacifi ...Show more
Volcano Town - The 1937-43 Rabaul Eruptions by R W Johnson; N A Threlfall
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Noa Noa - The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin by Paul Gauguin
$16.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
In 1894, Paul Gauguin left Europe to spend two years in Tahiti, where he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings. But he also created another masterpiece that has languished in obscurity for nearly 100 years: a detailed, entertaining journal and the sensuous woodblock prints and ske ...Show more
Narrative of a Voyage to The South Seas and the Shipwreck of The princess of Wales Cutter with an Accountof Two Years Residence on an Uninhabited Island by Charles Medyett Goodridge
$200.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
Shipwreck on Crozet Islands, rescue to Tasmania
Pacific Places, Pacific Histories - Essays in honour of Robert C Kiste by Brij V Lal (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Places matter. We are shaped by them, and in turn we shape them physically and imaginatively. They connect us to time and locality, perhaps even to life and death itself. This is a book about places and how our engagement with them--complex, changing, and varied--forms and transforms our understanding o ...Show more