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.South Pacific and Micronesia (Lonely Planet Country Guide)
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by: Geert Cole, Leanne Logan, Brett Atkinson, Oliver Berry, Becca Blond, Celeste Brash, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Tione Chinula, Rob Crossan, Mark Dapin

October 01, 2006

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.Solomon Time: Adventures in the South Pacific
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by: Will Randall

June 06, 2002
Posh English teacher, Will Randall finds himself handing in his resignation to continue the legacy left by a friends eccentric commander friend, where his mission is to help set up a profitable business for the local people in the idyllic distant Solomon islands.
Will reluctantly accepts the challenge with no idea of the extent of the changes that he is about to encounter living the slow paced life on the South Sea Islands.

With a relatively unknown tropical back drop, Will relates his story through his reserved English eyes, as he struggles with rinsing the rat race from his skin and replacing it with coconut oil and chicken feed...

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.Where the Hell Is Tuvalu?: How I Became the Law Man of the World's Fourth Smallest Country
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by: Philip Ells

June 30, 2008
This book brought back some memories. I went through VSO screening to be one of two doctors for two years on Tuvalu in 1992. Unlike Philip Ells I chickened at the last moment and lost all the fun and challenges. Very enjoyable, amusing and informative read.

This book should be compulsory pre-deployment reading for all VSO and UNV Volunteers.

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.Samoan Islands and Tonga (Lonely Planet Country Guide)
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by: Paul Smitz, Susannah Farfor

July 01, 2006
This book brought back some memories. I went through VSO screening to be one of two doctors for two years on Tuvalu in 1992. Unlike Philip Ells I chickened at the last moment and lost all the fun and challenges. Very enjoyable, amusing and informative read.

This book should be compulsory pre-deployment reading for all VSO and UNV Volunteers.

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.Moon Handbooks South Pacific (Moon Handbooks) (Moon Handbooks)
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by: David Stanley

January 28, 2005
Moon Handbooks South Pacific is the ultimate overview for traveling on any of the island groups of the South Pacific. This 1091 paged book is full of detailed travel information but is still practical sized to tuck in a daypack for easy reference. Furthermore, this book has plenty of fairly detailed maps, complete with accurate distance scales, for easy travel planning or reference while you travel.

There are eighteen chapters in Moon Handbooks South Pacific: Introduction; Exploring the Islands; French Polynesia; Pitcairn Islands; Easter Islands; Cook Islands; Niue; Kingdom of Tonga; American Samoa; Samoa; Tokelau; Wallis and Futuna, Tuvalu; Fiji Islands; New Caledonia; Vanuatu; Solomon Islands, and Resources. The introduction chapter contains ... Read More:
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.Frommer's South Pacific (Frommer's Complete)
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by: Bill Goodwin

August 01, 2008
Moon Handbooks South Pacific is the ultimate overview for traveling on any of the island groups of the South Pacific. This 1091 paged book is full of detailed travel information but is still practical sized to tuck in a daypack for easy reference. Furthermore, this book has plenty of fairly detailed maps, complete with accurate distance scales, for easy travel planning or reference while you travel.

There are eighteen chapters in Moon Handbooks South Pacific: Introduction; Exploring the Islands; French Polynesia; Pitcairn Islands; Easter Islands; Cook Islands; Niue; Kingdom of Tonga; American Samoa; Samoa; Tokelau; Wallis and Futuna, Tuvalu; Fiji Islands; New Caledonia; Vanuatu; Solomon Islands, and Resources. The introduction chapter contains ... Read More:
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.The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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by: J. Maarten Troost

June 20, 2004
Light fun read about a tropical hell hole plagued by faeces and NGO's. Just the book to read on a boring flight or in the airport lounge while you're travelling to another boring business meeting. If genuinely interested in the South Pacific then there's none better than "The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840" (Hardcover)
by Alan Moorehead
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.Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific
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by: Michael Moran

March 01, 2004
Moran's style and humour prevails throughout this compelling and meaningful book. From start to finish one is engulfed into a world so unlike anything that exists in the west. For that very reason, you cannot help but feel a sense of excitement and adventure. Add into that his dry (with an 'old world' British twist) sense of humour and it becomes captivating. It's clear that Moran's subjects are all very well researched. The depth and breath of knowledge of this obscure place and its people can only have come from someone who has a genuine interest in it, and enough passion in him to actually go there! It's this interest and passion that shines through, making it (in my opinion) one of the most unusual and offbeat travel books around today.

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.Faraway
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by: Lucy Irvine

November 02, 2000
We all dream about getting away from it all - the rat race and all that. So why not read about it from someone who did?

This is the fasinating story of Lucy Irvine's account of living on a remote island at the invitation of some who did just that - over fifty years ago!.

Brilliantly told by someone who knows what it is to live on a desert island, Lucy Irvine's account of the life of Diane Hepworth (and of her own experiences on Pidgeon Island) touch the adventurer in all of us.

Read it - and then think about how you'd like to psend YOUR life. Terrific stuff.
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.Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands (Lonely Planet Multi Country Guide)
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by: Rowan McKinnon, Dean Starnes, Jean-Bernard Carillet

May 01, 2008
Once upon a time, Lonely Planet had a good guide to Papua New Guinea (371 pages), and an excellent one to the Solomon Islands (279 pages). For better or worse these fascinating countries don't exactly attract hordes of holidaymakers, so after leaving those books unupdated for many years, the publisher has now decided to dump them together in this new edition (272 pages).
The result is basically a new, much slimmer guide to Papua New Guinea, with fewer than 30 pages on the Solomons (where it only actually covers half the country even nominally).
Not only has much of the detail been thrown out, the quality of information has also gone downhill sharply! :-(
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