Pacific Websites


BOOK & FILM SITES, and ONLINE BOOKS

(A) BOOK SITES

ABE Books USA (esp. secondhand, online only including some Australia, online catalog) http://www.abebooks.com

Alibris — Hard-to-find books  http://www.alibris.com/

All Arts Bookshop  http://www.allarts.com.au

Amazon Books USA (huge listing, mainly new, online only, online catalog) http://www.amazon.com

Anah Dunsheath Antiquarian Booksellers (Auckland, NZ) http://www.rarebooks.co.nz

Asia Pacific Press (ANU, Canberra) (publisher's catalog online) http://www.asiapacificpress.com

Association of American University Presses  http://aaup.uchicago.edu/

Barnes & Noble USA http://www.bn.com/

Berkelouw (Sydney & Berrima) (esp.secondhand) http://www.berkelouw.com.au/

Bibliophile  http://www.anzaab.com.au/~susant

Bishop Museum Press http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/press/

Bookstore "De Verre Volken" (Leiden, NL) (online catalog) http://www.ethnographicartbooks.com

Clouston & Hall Booksellers (remainders retailer, online catalog) http://www.pcug.org.au/~clouhall/welcome.htm

CMG Books (Toronto) http://www.cmgbooksandart.com

Crawford House Publishing Aust (Adelaide) http://www.crawfordhouse.com.au

e-Book Mall  (books online for purchase at usually reasonable prices) http://www.ebookmall.com/

Ethnographic Arts Publications  http://www.antiqbook.com/ethnographic/

Fiji Museum Publications (Gift Shop)  http://www.fijimuseum.org.fj/fm-books.htm

Hawaiian Books http://www.europa.com/islandbookshelf/books.htmlT=`

IPS Books, University of the South Pacific Online listing of all publications to date http://www.ipsbooks.usp.ac.fj

Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books (extensive Pacific listings)  http://www.maritimebooks.com.au/

Leiden Ethnographic Museum Bookshop (Holland)  http://www.ethnographicartbooks.com/

Macleay Museum Bookshop (Sydney University) http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/bbkshop.htm#books

Map South Pacific (maps and guide books)  http://www.mapsouthpacific.com/guides/index.html

Mytinger, Caroline:  Headhunting in the Solomon Islands (Microsoft Reader eBook) http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/67732-ebook.htm

Océanie Afrique Noire (OAN) (New York) http://www.oanbooks.com

Pacific Bookhouse (online catalog) http://www.pacificbookhouse.com.au/

Pacific Island Books http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/

Pacific Islands Bookstore  http://www.southpacific.org/books.html

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/pmb.html

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau 2 http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/pambu3.htm; http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/pambu3.htm

Pasifika Press (Auckland NZ) http://www.pasifika.co.nz

Picadilly Books (Auckland NZ) http://www.piccadillybooks.co.nz

Powells Bookstore (Portland OR) (new & used, good online service, online catalog) http://www.powells.com/

Publishers catalogs http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Others/NonAAUP/index.html

Semiotic Review of Books http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/index.html

Serendipity Books (Nedlands WA) (mainly secondhand, online catalog) http://www.iinet.net.au/~serendip/

South Pacific Books (NZ) http://www.southpacificbooks.co.nz/search.asp

Studies in German Colonial Heritage (in Australia & Pacific) http://home.mysoul.com.au/heritagefutures/HF_biz/SGCH/SGCH.html

Thorntons UK (online catalog) http://www.demon.co.uk/thorntons/catalog.htm

Tribal World Books (Australia) http://www.tribalworldbooks.com.au/

University Book Centre (University of the South Pacific, Fiji) http://www.uspbookcentre.com/

University of Chicago Press http://www.press.uchicago.edu/

University of Hawaii Press http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/index.html

University of Michigan Press  http://www.press.umich.edu/

University of New South Wales Bookshop  http://www.unireps.com.au/

University of the South Pacific Book Centre http://www.uspbookcentre.com/


(B) FILM SITES

ASAfilm (short ethnographic films for general viewing) http://www.theasa.org/publications/asafilm.htm

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

Films about the Pacific http://www2.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film

Moving Images of the Pacific Islands http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film

Na Maka o ka 'Aina http://www.namaka.com

Pacific Islanders in Communications http://www.piccom.org

Triton Films (Micronesia) http://www.tritonfilms.com    

 


(C) ONLINE BOOKS

Easter Island and its Mysteries by Dr Stéphen Chauvet 1935, trans. Ann Altman 2004  http://www.chauvet-translation.com/

Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! by Edmund Carpenter: Full text online
http://faculty.virginia.edu/phantom

South Sea Tales by Jack London: Full text online http://www.literature.org/authors/london-jack/south-sea-tales/

The Coconut Odyssey by Mike Foale http://www.aciar.gov.au/sites/aciar/files/node/453/mono101.pdf

The Light of Melanesia by Bishop H.H.Montgomery (1904). Full-text online of this record of the visit by the then Bishop of Tasmania to Norfolk Island, New Hebrides, Banks Islands and the Solomon Islands.    http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/aus/melanesia/montgomery1904/>http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/aus/melanesia/montgomery1904/

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

An Account of Samoan History up till 1918, by Te'o Tuvale: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-TuvAcco.html 

Aureretanga: Groans of the Maori (1895), by G. W. Rusden: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-RusAure.html 

Ethnology of Tokelau Islands, by Gordon MacGregor: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-MacToke.html

Ethnology of Manihiki and Rakahanga, by Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa): http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BucMani.html

Ethnology of Tongareva, by Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa): http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BucTong.html

First Lessons in Maori, by William Leonard Williams: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WilFirs.html

The Past and Present of New Zealand; with its Prospects for the Future (1868), by Rev. Richard Taylor ("a missionary, an acute observer of natural and ethnological phenomena."): http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-TayPast.html

Report of the Commission to Inquire Into and Report Upon the Organization of District and Village Government in Western Samoa: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-GovRepo.html

Through Ninety Years 1826-1916 by Frederic W. Williams (Notes on the lives of William and William Leonard Williams, First and
Third Bishops of Waiapu):  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WilThro.html

Tutira: A New Zealand Sheep Station, by H. Guthrie-Smith (ecology of a 40,000-head sheep station on the shores of Lake Tutira in the Hawkes Bay - "one of the great English-language classics of environmental history": http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-GutTuti.html

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (many books and articles online) http://www.aciar.gov.au/home and ACIAR Books oOnline http://www.aciar.gov.au/publication/latest


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