Author: Sir Reginald St.-Johnston
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Arthur Maurice Hocart
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Arthur M. Hocart
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Author: Sir Reginald St.-Johnston
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: John Spurway
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1925021181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 735

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Enele Ma`afu, son of Aleamotu`a, Tu`i Kanokupolu, grew up during a time of unprecedented social and political change in Tonga following the advent of Christianity. Moving to Lau, Fiji, in 1847 when he was about 21, he skilfully exploited kinship links to establish a power base there and in eastern Cakaudrove. His achievements were recognised in 1853 when his cousin King Tupou I appointed Ma`afu as Governor of the Tongans in Fiji. Acting as a putative champion of the lotu, Ma`afu undertook successful military campaigns elsewhere in Fiji and, after adding the Yasayasa Moala and the Exploring Isles to the nascent Lauan state, he was able to establish the Tovata ko Lau, a union of Lau, Cakaudrove and Bua, with himself as head. His power was formally recognised in 1869 when the Lauan chiefs appointed him as Tui Lau, a new title in the polity of Fiji. Ma`afu was now able to challenge Cakobau for the mastery of Fiji. After serving as Viceroy during the farcical planter oligarchy known as the Kingdom of Fiji, Ma`afu underwent a severe humiliation when, in order to maintain his power in Lau, he was forced to accede to the wishes of Fiji’s other great chiefs in offering their islands to Great Britain. He would end his days as Roko Tui Lau, a ‘subordinate administrator’ in the Crown Colony of Fiji, presiding over a province characterised by corruption and maladministration but where the legacy of his earlier innovative land reforms has endured.

Author: Arthur Maurice Hocart
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Warwick Clay
Publisher: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd
ISBN: 1846239001
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Details of harbours and anchorages in the Pacific south of the equator between New Guinea and South America.

Author: David Stanley
Publisher: David Stanley
ISBN: 9781566910385
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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A fourth revised edition of a handbook to the 322 islands of the Pacific that make up the Fiji Islands, covering Viti Levu, Yasawa islands, the Lomaiviti group, Vanua Levu, Taveuni, the Lau group and Rotuma. Offers recommendations for the traveller on accomodation, airfares, air routes and tour services and inter-island travel.

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547525184
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 731

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The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.

Author: Simon Kooijman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900454495X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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