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Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: £12.99£8.73Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan ... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £25.99£19.28By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of... -
Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Steven Roger Fischer 9781861892829
£20.83Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c. AD 700. Centuries later the island's statues were famous throughout the world. This book presents a comprehensive history... -
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
RRP: £14.99£9.95The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the... -
Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid by Gregory Forth
RRP: £14.99£9.61A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum-and whether or not they still survive.While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across... -
The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II by George H. Johnston 9781594161513
£15.86Following their attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines, the Japanese invaded New Guinea in early 1942 as part of their attempt to create a Pacific empire. Control of New Guinea would enable Japan to establish large army, air... -
Lighthouse: An Illuminating History of the World's Coastal Sentinels by R G Grant 9780316414470
RRP: £27.99£21.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316414470Author R G GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersPublisher Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Titanic the Ship Magnificent - Volume One: Design & Construction by Bruce Beveridge 9780750968317
RRP: £72.00£54.19The largest, most luxurious ship in the world, lost on her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg in mid-Atlantic, Titanic has become the stuff of legends. Built at the peak of the race between the British, French and Germans to build bigger and... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: £16.99£14.71There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
War At The End Of The World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945 by James P. Duffy 9780593471722
RRP: £11.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593471722Author James P. DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Early Pacific Raids 1942: The American Carriers Strike Back by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific. After the devastating Japanese blows of... -
A Pattern of Islands by Sir Arthur Grimble
RRP: £14.99£9.75"A Pattern of Islands" is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he... -
Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival by Joan Druett
RRP: £12.99£8.43"Riveting." -The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best-and at its worst. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave's... -
The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Captain Dale Dye
RRP: £12.99£9.34Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor... -
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
RRP: £25.00£16.59Ninety years on from its opening in 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge remains the most recognisable symbol of Australia. The iconic arch took almost nine years to complete - at a cost of sixteen lives and more than six million pounds - and the people,... -
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities by Steve Mentz 9780367763664
RRP: £35.99£33.18An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of... -
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
RRP: £30.00£23.82"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities... -
Hawaiki Rising: Hokule`a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance by Sam Low 9780824875244
RRP: £19.95£16.40Attuned to a world of natural signs-the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells-Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to... -
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii by David Kalakaua
RRP: £14.99£11.66A moving account of Hawaii's most culturally significant stories, presented by King David Kalakaua.The Legends and Myths of Hawaii introduces readers to the social, historical, and religious customs of native Hawaiians, revealing the history of a culture... -
Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of John Pryor by Dr. Ruthy Gertwagen
RRP: £43.99£40.64The cutting-edge papers in this collection reflect the wide areas to which John Pryor has made significant contributions in the course of his scholarly career. They are written by some of the world's most distinguished practitioners in the fields of... -
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator by Jason M. Colby 9780190673093
RRP: £23.49£17.44Orcas are the most profitable and controversial display animal in history, and since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on their plight. Yet no historical account has explored how we came to care... -
Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield by Joseph Wheelan
RRP: £25.00£16.99The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu - a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery. In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780195397932
RRP: £21.99£21.37There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator by Jason M. Colby
RRP: £17.49£15.11Since 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 now, no historical account has explained how we came to... -
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £30.00£19.52Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally... -
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas 9781803284637
RRP: £12.99£9.34The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year 'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist 'A refreshing... -
Water and Power in West Maui by Jonathan L. Scheuer 9780824884529
RRP: £24.95£20.26Water and Power in West Maui draws our attention to the ways control of water resources, in West Maui and across Hawai'i, has been key to the creation and perpetuation of political and economic power and privilege. This volume, by two leading advocates... -
Blue Latitudes by Horowitz 9780312422608
RRP: £17.99£14.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422608Author HorowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Easter Island by Spanier Kristine Mlis 9781636903071
RRP: £26.99£21.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636903071Author Spanier Kristine MlisFormat HardbackImprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 191g -
Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies by Yuan Shu 9789888455775
£72.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888455775Author Yuan ShuFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press -
Ignored Histories: The Politics of History Education and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and Kanaky/New Caledonia by Angelique Stastny 9780824890377
RRP: £27.95£22.58How is colonial history taught in schools? And how do education systems impact power relations between Indigenous people and settlers? This book provides a unique contribution to international discussions about knowledge production and the teaching of... -
Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810 by Nigel Rigby 9781889963761
RRP: £24.95£21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889963761Author Nigel RigbyFormat HardbackImprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska Press -
Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua by Danilyn Rutherford 9780226731971
£111.72For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking... -
Genes, Language, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific by Jonathan S. Friedlaender 9780195300307
RRP: £83.00£76.34The broad arc of islands north of Australia that extends from Indonesia east towards the central Pacific is home to a set of human populations whose concentration of diversity is unequaled elsewhere. Approximately 20% of the worlds languages are spoken... -
Ka Ngangana Tonu a Hineamaru: He Korero Tuku Iho no Te Tai Tokerau: 2022 by Melinda Webber 9781869409494
RRP: £49.95£40.68'E kore e monehunehu te pumahara ki nga momo rangatira o nehera na ratou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa me Papa Tu a Nuku. Ko nga tohu o o ratou tapuwae i kakahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua - he taonga, he tapu. -Ta Himi Henare Haramai... -
Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds by Ryan Tucker Jones 9780824892821
RRP: £27.95£22.58More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the... -
A Fire in the Belly of Hineāmaru: A Collection of Narratives about Te Tai Tokerau Tūpuna: 2022 by Melinda Webber 9781869409401
RRP: £60.00£48.64‘E kore e mōnehunehu te pūmahara ki ngā momo rangatira o neherā nā rātou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa me Papa Tū a Nuku. Ko ngā tohu o ō rātou tapuwae i kākahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua – he taonga, he tapu. Time will not dim the... -
Niihau - Peles Hawaiian Landfall: a History by Steven Gentry 9781991153845
RRP: £60.00£48.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991153845Author Steven GentryFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Steele Roberts Aotearoa LtdPublisher Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd -
See No Evil – New Zealand′s Betrayal of the People of West Papua by Maire Leadbeater
£34.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947602328Author Maire LeadbeaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Cincinnati PressPublisher University of Cincinnati Press -
Helpem Fren: Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 2003-2017 by Michael Wesley
RRP: £34.95£28.78In 2003 Australia conceived, financed and led a Pacific-wide intervention into Solomon Islands to prevent the collapse of that state. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) was to remain there for fourteen years, costing over $2...