ABSTRACT
A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|17 pages
Sea of Uprearing Billows
part 2|36 pages
‘Big Waqa, Great Labour'
part 3|29 pages
Vaka from Tangaroa
part 4|42 pages
Schooner on the Reef
part 5|53 pages
Ages of Passing Innocence
part 6|75 pages
'Bout Ship and Try Again
part |16 pages
Finale 1945–2000
