A Pacific Collection to stimulate your curiosity ...
USP Book Centre specialises in books about the Pacific - its people & politics, history & geography, culture & traditions, flora & fauna, language & literature, travel, crafts and many more...
Satendra Nandan's selected prose from 1978 to 2008 on topics such as colonialism, education, ethics, corruption, fundamentalism, leadership, and religion
"Kava in the Blood is a timely and illuminating story which probes the psyche of this nation. It has all the hallmarks of a South Pacific classic." - North and South. June, 1999
Written from archival research and observation, TUIMACILAI is a biographical study of Ratu Sir Kamasese Mara, leading figure in the South Pacific whose background, character, role in the traditional as well as national life, political difficulties, achievements, and failures are obviously worthy of being put on record for their own sake quite apart from the fact that assessment of evidence has educative value. Written by Deryck Scarr.
This modern Fijian Grammar has been prepared after a detailed and extensive study in Fiji by a trained liguistic. The book was examined by the Late Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, who not only checked or amended the text in the interests of accuracy but suggested the addition of many points explanatory of Fijian custom, which is so closely related to the language. Throughout the book specially graded word-lists and exercises are provided to give the learner, whether he is a beginner or not, good practice in what he has already learnt from earlier chapters.
A. Cappel's famous 1940 work, republished by the Fiji Government in 1991. The language taken as the standard in this work has been the normal educated Fijian, taught in schools, and printed in books and magazines.
Revd J. Waterhouse witnessed Fijian life in the early 19th century and gave a first hand look at the traditional Fijian way of life. A classic book with sharp and sensitive descriptions of the cultural practices and politics of the era.
R A Derrick's 1946 work gives an overview of Fiji from the first migrations, prehistory and the turmoil of contact which led to the Deed of Cession in 1874 when Fiji became a British Crown Colony
For the first time since 1977, this study by Professor Wadan Narsey uses sound national 2002 Household Income and Expenditure survey data from the Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics to throw much light on fundamental questions regarding poverty.
