Description: "The poems in the anthology were composed by a race of seafarers and island dwellers who crossed thousands of miles of ocean in frail vessels, guiding themselves by the stars and the feel of wave and wind. The poems reflect the ways in which they saw their universe of sea and sky and the scattered fragments of land they found and settled. Their chants tell of gods and rituals of gods, of heroes and heroisms - as well as the particulars of everyday life. They sing of primary experience charged with emotion - birth, love, endurance, strife, death. Poetry was central to these people."--Introduction.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The poems in the anthology were composed by a race of seafarers and island dwellers who crossed thousands of miles of ocean in frail vessels, guiding themselves by the stars…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "The common theme in this collection is racial interaction--sometimes amusing, often not- between Polynesian and European. The stories are set in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and throughout the characters unconsciously reveal a legacy of misunderstanding and prejudice that ably demonstrates that we are still 'new neighbours'."--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The common theme in this collection is racial interaction--sometimes amusing, often not- between Polynesian and European. The stories are set in New Zealand and the Pacific…

Description: "Nuanua is a new anthology of writing in English from the Pacific. Following the earlier and very successful Lali, it includes short stories, extracts from novels and poems written since 1980 in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. It gives a representative picture of a great range of styles and talents, a richness and diversity symbolised by the book's title, nuanua, or rainbow.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Nuanua is a new anthology of writing in English from the Pacific. Following the earlier and very successful Lali, it includes short stories, extracts from novels and poems…