West Pacific Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook West Pacific Islands write by United States. Office of Geography. This book was released on 1957. West Pacific Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Asia in the Pacific Islands
Asia in the Pacific Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asia in the Pacific Islands write by R. G. Crocombe. This book was released on 2007. Asia in the Pacific Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A spectacular transition is under way in the Pacific Islands, as a result of which all our lives will be radically different. In the last fifty years or so, Asia has begun to play a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of Islands life - migration, trade and investment, aid and development, information and media, religion, culture and sport. It is replacing the West. The process is irreversible. With his trademark breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of the region, based on over half a century of experience, study and deliberation, Ron Crocombe documents the early connections between Asia and the Pacific, details recent and continuing changes, and poses challenging theories about the future."--Publisher.
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies write by Patrick Vinton Kirch. This book was released on 2007-04-30. The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographers. In their accounts of exploration, early European voyagers in the Pacific frequently described the teeming populations they encountered on island after island. Yet missionary censuses and later nineteenth-century records often indicate much smaller populations on Pacific Islands, leading many scholars to debunk the explorers’ figures as romantic exaggerations. Recently, the debate over the indigenous populations of the Pacific has intensified, and this book addresses the problem from new perspectives. Rather than rehash old data and arguments about the validity of explorers’ or missionaries’ accounts, the contributors to this volume offer a series of case studies grounded in new empirical data derived from original archaeological fieldwork and from archival historical research. Case studies are presented for the Hawaiian Islands, Mo‘orea, the Marquesas, Tonga, Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, New Caledonia, Aneityum (Vanuatu), and Kosrae.
Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands
Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands write by George R. Zug. This book was released on 2013-06-28. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pacific is not only the world’s largest body of water; its vast expanse also includes an extraordinary number and diversity of oceanic islands, from Palau and the Marianas east of the Philippines to Cocos Island and the Galápagos west of the Americas. The isolation of these islands and the extreme distances between them long prevented scientists from studying their floras and faunas in a comparative context. But now George R. Zug, one of the world's foremost experts on the diverse reptiles and amphibians of the Pacific Basin, offers the first such systematic overview in more than half a century. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands is a compendium of frogs, lizards, snakes, and turtles living on these lands and in the adjacent waters of the oceanic islands in the tropical Pacific. The means to identify each species is included, along with entries that describe each animal's form, coloration, habitat, distribution, reproductive biology, and natural history. Color plates of more than 75 percent of the species also help to facilitate visual identification. This accessible and informative guide is the most comprehensive field guide available and will appeal to both novice sightseers and professional naturalists.
Pacific Island Landscapes
Pacific Island Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pacific Island Landscapes write by Patrick D. Nunn. This book was released on 1998. Pacific Island Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Pacific island landscapes explores the origin and physical history of one of the least known regions of the Earth's surface - the Pacific Islands. Never before has such a systematic account of the island groups been compiled. In this volume, Patrick Nunn outlines how each of the main island groups originated then gives detailed accounts - much from his own research -- - of islands in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. A final substantive chapter treats the interaction of early human settlers of Pacific Islands and their environments."--Back cover
