Pacific Non-Fiction

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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia 4.24 avg rating — 6,613 ratings
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Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook 3.89 avg rating — 180 ratings
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We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific 4.41 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures
Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures 3.87 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research
The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research 3.09 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation 3.55 avg rating — 3,149 ratings
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples 4.47 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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Explorations of Aotearoa
Explorations of Aotearoa
by: Max Allen
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Two Flags over Iwo Jima: Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps' Proudest Moment
Two Flags over Iwo Jima: Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps' Proudest Moment 3.81 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective
Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Fatal Impact
The Fatal Impact 3.99 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Volcanic Adventures in Tonga - Species Conservation on Tin Can Island
Volcanic Adventures in Tonga - Species Conservation on Tin Can Island
by: Ann Göth
4.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Story of Laulii: Daughter of Samoa
The Story of Laulii: Daughter of Samoa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982
Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Fatal Voyage: Captain Cook's Last Great Journey
The Fatal Voyage: Captain Cook's Last Great Journey 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific 3.82 avg rating — 769 ratings
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The Chinese in Western Samoa, 1875-1985.
The Chinese in Western Samoa, 1875-1985. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba
Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba 4.19 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas 4.06 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific 3.53 avg rating — 401 ratings
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In the South Seas; Letters From Samoa, Etc
In the South Seas; Letters From Samoa, Etc liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology
Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
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"Rainbow Warrior" Affair
"Rainbow Warrior" Affair 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Listen but Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific
Listen but Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Samoan Medical Belief and Practice
Samoan Medical Belief and Practice 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Day of Two Suns: U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
Day of Two Suns: U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life 4.01 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Rascals in Paradise: Turbulent Adventures and Bold Courage on the South Seas
Rascals in Paradise: Turbulent Adventures and Bold Courage on the South Seas 3.77 avg rating — 520 ratings
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With Stevenson in Samoa
With Stevenson in Samoa really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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History of the Mariana Islands
History of the Mariana Islands really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Tyree: Artist of the South Pacific
Tyree: Artist of the South Pacific
by: C.J. Cook
4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Plants in Samoan Culture: The Ethnobotany of Samoa
Plants in Samoan Culture: The Ethnobotany of Samoa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Early Mapping of the Pacific: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean
Early Mapping of the Pacific: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition 4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Sāmoan Proverbs: Alagā'upu ma Muāgagana a Sāmoa
Sāmoan Proverbs: Alagā'upu ma Muāgagana a Sāmoa 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Chamorro: A History and Ethnography of the Mariana Islands
The Chamorro: A History and Ethnography of the Mariana Islands really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Argonauts of the Western Pacific 3.76 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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To Walk Under Palm Trees: The Germans in Samoa: Snapshots from Albums - Part One
To Walk Under Palm Trees: The Germans in Samoa: Snapshots from Albums - Part One really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Tiempon I Manmofo'na: Ancient Chamorro culture and history of the Northern Mariana Islands (Micronesian Archaeological Survey report series)
Tiempon I Manmofo'na: Ancient Chamorro culture and history of the Northern Mariana Islands (Micronesian Archaeological Survey report series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Aggie Grey: A Samoan Saga
Aggie Grey: A Samoan Saga really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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History of the Mariana Islands to Partition
History of the Mariana Islands to Partition it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific 3.45 avg rating — 307 ratings
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The Samoa Islands: An Outline Of A Monograph With Particular Consideration Of German Samoa Volume II
The Samoa Islands: An Outline Of A Monograph With Particular Consideration Of German Samoa Volume II 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Unfamiliar Fishes
Unfamiliar Fishes 3.64 avg rating — 15,299 ratings
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The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood
The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Su'esu'e Manogi: In Search of Fragrance.: Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi and the Samoan Indigenous Reference.
Su'esu'e Manogi: In Search of Fragrance.: Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi and the Samoan Indigenous Reference. 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850
Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires 4.04 avg rating — 3,947 ratings
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Samoa mo Samoa: Black Saturday 1929
Samoa mo Samoa: Black Saturday 1929 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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NGATIK MASSACRE PB (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
NGATIK MASSACRE PB (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
by: Lin Poyer
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages 3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Aggie Grey of Samoa
Aggie Grey of Samoa 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Guam and Its People
Guam and Its People 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913
The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913 4.06 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Chinese in Samoa 1875-2015: The Dragon Came from Afar = [Lung Lai Chien Li]
The Chinese in Samoa 1875-2015: The Dragon Came from Afar = [Lung Lai Chien Li] 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series)
Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Philippine War, 1899-1902
The Philippine War, 1899-1902 3.92 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Mau: Samoa's Struggle for Freedom
Mau: Samoa's Struggle for Freedom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Useful Plants of Guam: A Facsimile Edition Reprint of the Original Book Published in 1905
Useful Plants of Guam: A Facsimile Edition Reprint of the Original Book Published in 1905 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines 4.10 avg rating — 812 ratings
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Home from the Sea: Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Home from the Sea: Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders
Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders 4.06 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders: from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders: from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s
Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s 3.62 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth 3.33 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders: From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders: From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century 4.03 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti 4.10 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Making of Modern Samoa: Traditional Authority and Colonial Administration in the History of Western Samoa
The Making of Modern Samoa: Traditional Authority and Colonial Administration in the History of Western Samoa 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Place Names of Pohnpei Island, Including And (Ant) and Pakin Atolls
Place Names of Pohnpei Island, Including And (Ant) and Pakin Atolls 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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This Divided Island: Life, Death, and the Sri Lankan War
This Divided Island: Life, Death, and the Sri Lankan War 4.36 avg rating — 1,720 ratings
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Lagaga: A short history of Western Samoa
Lagaga: A short history of Western Samoa 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Tattooing in the Marshall Islands
Tattooing in the Marshall Islands 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will 4.23 avg rating — 4,768 ratings
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Samoa Faamatai and the Rule of Law
Samoa Faamatai and the Rule of Law 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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On the Road of the Winds: An Archæological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact
On the Road of the Winds: An Archæological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact 4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings
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A Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia: Including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau,
A Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia: Including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories
In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom 3.73 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Su'esu'e Manogi: in Search of Fragrance : Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi And the Samoan Indigenous Reference
Su'esu'e Manogi: in Search of Fragrance : Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi And the Samoan Indigenous Reference liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West - History of Tatooing
Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West - History of Tatooing 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands 3.81 avg rating — 796 ratings
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History of American Samoa, A
History of American Samoa, A it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific
Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific 3.40 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Aloha Shirt: Spirit Of The Islands
The Aloha Shirt: Spirit Of The Islands
by: Dale Hope
4.06 avg rating — 71 ratings
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My Samoan Chief
My Samoan Chief 3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Island of the Colorblind
The Island of the Colorblind 3.88 avg rating — 5,101 ratings
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The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island 3.84 avg rating — 651 ratings
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The Samoa Islands: An Outline of a Monograph With Particular Consideration of German Samoa : Constitution, Pedigrees and Traditions Volume I
The Samoa Islands: An Outline of a Monograph With Particular Consideration of German Samoa : Constitution, Pedigrees and Traditions Volume I 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Pacific Islands: Environment & Society
The Pacific Islands: Environment & Society 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Migrating Genders: Westernisation, Migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine
Migrating Genders: Westernisation, Migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion 3.82 avg rating — 417 ratings
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We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia 4.47 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Ancient Tonga & the Lost City of Mu'A: Including Samoa, Fiji, & Rarotonga (Lost Cities of the Pacific Series)
Ancient Tonga & the Lost City of Mu'A: Including Samoa, Fiji, & Rarotonga (Lost Cities of the Pacific Series) 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i 4.47 avg rating — 747 ratings
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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History
The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mau: Samoa's struggle against New Zealand oppression
Mau: Samoa's struggle against New Zealand oppression 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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