Suggested Readings: New Zealand and Oceana

Ashton-Warner, S.

  • Greenstone. Maori legend woven into a novel of today.
  • Spinster. Teaching maori's and the teacher herself. Funny, moving,
    and delightful.

Ball, Ian. Pitcairn: Children of the Bounty.

Bone, Robert W. The Maverick Guide to New Zealand. Pelican

Brewster, Adolph. King of the Cannibal Isles.

Brook, J. & Kohen, J. L. The Parramatta Native Institution and
the Black Town: A History.

History of Parramatta Native Institution, Aborigines in Australia and New South Wales.

Chambers, Stuart. Birds Of New Zealand-Locality Guide.
Arun Books, Hamilton. 1989.

Daws, Gavin. A Dream of Islands.
Victorians who searched for the exotic Pacific and found themselves.

Duff, Alan. Once Were Warriors.
About domestic abuse in a Maori family; also a new Zealand made movie.

Grimble, Arthur. A Pattern of Islands.
(English edition, published here as We Chose the Islands)
One of the best books I've ever read, about an era now long gone.

Hulme, Keri. The Bone People.
Award winning Maori novelist's tale of people on the South Island of New Zealand.

Joyce, R. & Saunders. New Zealand: the Glorious Islands. Rand McNally 1984.

Koch, C. J. The Year of Living Dangerously.
A novel about Indonesian politics.

Lambert, S.M. A Yankee Doctor in Paradise.

Melville, Herman.

  • Omoo
  • Typee

Melville's genuine feeling for the South seas comes clearly through.

Moorhead, Alan. The Fatal Impact.
What the West did to Oceania. Colorful, very much alive.

Morrison, John & Geraghty, Paul & Crowl, Linda.

  • Science of Pacific Island Peoples, Volume 1. Ocean and Coastal Studies.
    Publishers: Institute of Pacific Studies 1994
  • Science of Pacific Island Peoples, Volume 2. Land Use and Agriculture.
    Publishers: Institute of Pacific Studies 1994
  • Science of Pacific Island Peoples, Volume 3. Fauna, Flora, Food & Medicine.
    Publishers: Institute of Pacific Studies 1994
  • Science of Pacific Island Peoples, Volume 4. Education, Language,
    Patterns & Policy.
    Publishers: Institute of Pacific Studies 1994

Nordoff & Hall.

  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Pitcairns' Island
  • Men Against the Sea

A famous trilogy, based on true story of Captain Bligh, mutiny and tragedy.

Ravuvu, Asesela D.

  • The Fijian Ethos. Fijians rites and ceremonies, ethnology, and social life and customs.
  • The Facade of Democracy. Fijian Struggles for Political Control 1830-1987.

Stevenson, R.L.

  • In the South Seas
  • Island Night's Entertainment

Trumbull, Robert. Tin Roofs and Palm Trees: A Report on the New South Seas.

Wheeler, Tony. New Zealand - a travel survival kit. Lonely Planet
Publications. 1991

 

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Reading List last updated February 05, 1996.