Cultural Region/Oceania
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Burned
$8.99 Add to cartIt took real faith and courage to get Bethany back on a surfboard after losing her arm to a shark. The Soul Surfer fiction series is based on the life of surfer star Bethany Hamilton, as she and her f
- Series: Faithgirlz / Soul Surfer #2
- Author: Bundschuh, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0310745551
- Language: English
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Hawaiian Myths of Earth, Sea, and Sky
$13.99 Add to cartWhen the storytellers of ancient Hawaii gathered by the light of candlenut torches, they told tales that explained the world around them. These tales described how the gods created the earth and its l
- Series: Kolowalu Books (Paperback)
- Author: Thompson, Vivian L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0824811712
- Language: English
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Bury Me Deep
$7.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Club–soon to be an original Netflix series!Jean is on her way to Hawaii for a week of fun in the sun. But the vacation gets off to a gruesom… [more below]
- Author: Pike, Christopher
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0743424247
- Language: English
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Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together): Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1971 a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia’s remote Central and Western Deserts changed the face of global art history. The township of Papunya was founded in 1959 as a settlement for
- Author: Myers, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1735326925
- Language: English
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Tikanga: An Introduction to Te Ao Maori
$29.95 Read moreThe book we’ve all been needing for decades – a unique explanation of the Maori world for Pakeha, and for Maori people wishing to learn more about tikanga.
With simple lucidity and great expertise, K- Author: Opai, Keri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1990003176
- Language: English
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Dreaming the Land: Aboriginal Art from Remote Australia
$70.00 Read moreThe artworks of Aboriginal Australian peoples are a profoundly important repository of knowledge and reflect a deep connection to Country. This visually rich survey explores the evolution of the conte
- Author: Geissler, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1760762962
- Language: English
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
$39.00 Add to cartOver the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0316743798
- Language: English
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
$22.99 Add to cartIn an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422601
- Language: English
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Playing with Matches
$19.99 Read morePlaying with Matches is the ultimate collector’s edition by internationally best-selling poet, Michael Faudet. A beautiful hardcover gift book that has been personally curated by the author featuring … [more below]
- Author: Faudet, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1524869899
- Language: English
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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
$14.99 Add to cartA New York Times Best Seller
“A worthy retrospective that feels chilling in the manner of novelist Perry.” -Kirkus Reviews On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme–better known as bestselling- Author: Graham, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1634505182
- Language: English
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Twain: Letters from Hawaii
$19.99 Add to cart“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever.” –Mark Twain
So Samuel Langhorne Clemens- Series: Pacific Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0824802888
- Language: English
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History of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-I-Kalani-Nui: Father of Hawaiian Kings
$7.99 Add to cartHistory of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-i-kalani-nui, Father of Hawaiian Kings is a genealogical history by Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau La’anui Pratt. Written towards the end of Pratt’s life, the book was intend
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Pratt Elizabeth La’anui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1513299549
- Language: English
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Rangikura: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartA fiery second collection of poetry from the acclaimed Indigenous New Zealand writer that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo calls, “One of the most startling and original poets of her generation.”
Tayi Tib- Author: Tibble, Tayi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 059353462X
- Language: English
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D-Days in the Pacific
$26.99 Add to cartAlthough most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II t… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0743269292
- Language: English
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The Poke Cookbook: The Freshest Way to Eat Fish
$17.99 Read morePoke, the traditional Hawaiian snack of raw fish seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil, has hit the mainland. On the islands, it’s the casual dish that brings everyone together–but now you can bring… [more below]
- Author: Cheng, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0451498062
- Language: English
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Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator
$34.99 Add to cartSince the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until no… [more below]
- Author: Colby, Jason M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190673095
- Language: English
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Sally Gabori
$70.00 Read moreA selection of the late Indigenous Australian artist’s jubilantly colorful abstractions
The Indigenous Australian artist Sally Gabori (c. 1924-2015) began painting late in life, at about the age of 80.
- Author: Gabori, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 2869251726
- Language: English
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The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral
$16.00 Add to cartAt the farthest extent of Australia’s Blue Mountains, on the threshold of the country’s arid interior, the Blue Plateau reveals the vagaries of a hanging climate: the droughts last longer, the seasons
- Author: Tredinnick, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1571313206
- Language: English
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A Concise History of New Zealand
$32.00 Read moreNew Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Mein Smith, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1107402174
- Language: English
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
$23.99 Add to cartThe dramatic history of America’s tropical paradise
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals–from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy- Author: Moore, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536171
- Language: English
