| |
|
|
|
Disclosure: Products details and descriptions provided by Amazon.com. Our company may receive a payment if you purchase products from them after following a link from this website.
By Dean Starnes
Lonely Planet
Paperback (280 pages)
 | List Price: $19.99*
Lowest New Price: $12.33*
Lowest Used Price: $18.19*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | - ISBN13: 9781741047936
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description:
Nobody knows Fiji like Lonely Planet, and our 8th edition offers the best of these island paradises. Whether that's surfing world-class breaks in the Mamanucas, island hopping in search of your perfect Yasawa beach, exploring the lush interior of Taveuni or discovering Suva's best nightspots - you decide.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Sailing information for yachties and tips on how to join as crew
Color highlights help you plan your trip
Green Index to help make your travels ecofriendly
|
|
By David Stanley
Avalon Travel Publishing
Paperback (389 pages)
 | List Price: $19.95*
Lowest New Price: $2.18*
Lowest Used Price: $2.18*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | - ISBN13: 9781566919821
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description:
South Pacific expert and veteran travel writer David Stanley knows the best way to experience Fiji, from making waves at one of the world’s premiere diving spots to getting away from it all in lesser-known villages. Stanley provides great trip ideas like Best of Fiji, Island-Hopping, and Diving in Fiji. Packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations, Moon Fiji has lots of options for a range of travel budgets. Every Moon guidebook includes recommendations for must-see sights and many regional, area, and city-centered maps. Complete with details on the best beaches and tips on prolonging a trip to the islands, Moon Fiji gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon guidebooks are the cure for the common trip. |
|
By J. Maarten Troost
Broadway
Released: 2006-06-13
Paperback (256 pages)
 | List Price: $13.99*
Lowest New Price: $4.94*
Lowest Used Price: $3.98*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | - ISBN13: 9780767921992
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description:
With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world. After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, battling feral dogs, machete-wielding neighbors, and a lack of beer on a daily basis, Maarten Troost was in no hurry to return to the South Pacific. But as time went on, he realized he felt remarkably out of place among the trappings of twenty-first-century America. When he found himself holding down a job—one that might possibly lead to a career—he knew it was time for him and his wife, Sylvia, to repack their bags and set off for parts unknown.
Getting Stoned with Savages tells the hilarious story of Troost’s time on Vanuatu—a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to “eat the man.” Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles against typhoons, earthquakes, and giant centipedes and soon finds himself swept up in the laid-back, clothing-optional lifestyle of the islanders. When Sylvia gets pregnant, they decamp for slightly-more-civilized Fiji, a fallen paradise where the local chiefs can be found watching rugby in the house next door. And as they contend with new parenthood in a country rife with prostitutes and government coups, their son begins to take quite naturally to island living—in complete contrast to his dad. |
|
By Bill Goodwin
Frommers
Paperback (288 pages)
 | List Price: $18.99*
Lowest New Price: $10.70*
Lowest Used Price: $8.00*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | - ISBN13: 9780470257074
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description:
America’s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer’s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do. - More annually updated guides than any other series
- 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides
- Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries
- Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design
Completely new for 2008, Frommer’s Fiji completely details the highlights of this 300-plus island nation, covering the best beaches, outdoor activities, all-inclusive resorts, and cultural experiences. Our author has written about the South Pacific for years, so he's able to provide valuable insights and advice, steering you away from the touristy and the inauthentic, and showing you the real heart of Fiji. From the “mainland” island of Viti Levu and the neighboring resorts on Denarau Island and the Mamanuca Islands to the pristine northern Fiji islands of Vanua Levu and Taveuni. From the best spots for sailing, snorkeling, diving, fishing, hiking, and rafting, to the best ways to explore the region's complex cultural and political history, as well as its flora, fauna, and topography. You’ll travel Fiji like a pro with our candid advice, In-Depth Appendix, and handy Active Vacation Planner. Also included are accurate regional and town maps, an online directory that makes trip-planning a snap, up-to-date advice on finding the best package deals, and Suggested Itineraries on how to explore this island nation in one week and two weeks, with additional itineraries for families, outdoors enthusiasts, and honeymooners! |
|
By Ian Osborn
Rough Guides
Paperback (296 pages)
 | List Price: $19.99*
Lowest New Price: $12.05*
Lowest Used Price: $10.82*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | - ISBN13: 9781858284187
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description:
The Rough Guide to Fiji explores all the best to see and do in this Pacific paradise. Discover the aqua blue lagoons with exquisite beaches and the lush tropical rainforest with the most comprehensive guide on the market. With detailed information on all of Fiji’s popular tourist islands and towns, this guide features full colour sections on diving and snorkelling Fiji’s reefs, and tips for visiting traditional villages, plus 52 detailed maps, covering all regions and towns. There are full-restaurant and accommodation listings and Fiji''s best attractions, from the backpacker looking to party, to the honeymooners looking for a secluded beach. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Fiji. |
|
By Paul Younger
Oxford University Press, USA
Hardcover (304 pages)
 | List Price: $74.00*
Lowest New Price: $71.14*
Lowest Used Price: $85.48*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of "indentured" labor was supposed to be different from slavery because the indenture, or contract, was written for an initial period of five years and involved fixed wages and some specified conditions of work. From the workers' point of view, the one redeeming feature of the system was that most of their workmates spoke their language and came from the same area of India. Because this allowed them to develop some sense of community, by the end of the initial five years most of the Indian laborers chose to stay in the land to which they had been taken. In time that land became the place in which they joined with others to build a new homeland. In this fieldwork-based study, Paul Younger looks at the present day descendents of these workers and their post-indenture societies in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa. He finds that they still cling to the fact that it was an arbitrary British decision that took them there and made the society pluralistic. This plurality seems to require them to search their memory for a distinctive religious tradition that they can pass on to their children. They know that there was a loss of culture involved in their move to these locations and consider it important to recover from that loss. But they are also intensely proud of their new identity, and insist that they have established a new religious tradition in their new homeland. For generations, says Younger, these people had struggled in their situation and now they had come up with a sense of community and purpose and were prepared to make the historical claim that they had developed an appropriate religious tradition for their specific community. |
|
By David Addison
University of Otago Studies in Prehistoric Anthropology
Paperback (122 pages)
 | List Price: $6.59*
Lowest New Price: $6.59*
Lowest Used Price: $24.26*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
The latest research on the Fiji/West Polynesia region. Chapters include: Archaeology in the Polynesian Homeland: The State of Play at the Beginning of the 21st Century by C. Sand & D. Addison; A Retrospective View of the Early Years by J. Davidson; Natural and Cultural Deposits in Tatuba Cave, Fiji Islands by J.S. Field; An Early First Millenium AD Burial from the Naselala Site, Cikobia-i-Ra Island (North-East Fiji) by F. Valentin, C. Sand, I. Le Goff, & H. Bocherens; Evidence for Culturally Modified Human Bone from Tongan Skeletal Assemblages by A.A. Storey; Conjectures on Indigenous Technology Transfer in Early Historic Samoa by S.S. Barnes & R.C. Green; Radiocarbon Dating Marine Shell in Samoa by F. Petchey & D. Addison; The Samoan Dark Ages, ~1500-1000 BP by T. Rieth & D. Addison; Samoan Plain Ware Ceramics of Tutuila Island, American Samoa by D. Addison, J. Toloa, T. Tago, & S. Vaueli |
|
By Korina Miller & Leonardo Pinheiro
Lonely Planet Publications
Paperback (256 pages)
 | List Price: $16.99*
Lowest New Price: $6.94*
Lowest Used Price: $0.01*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
This book of information gives details about Fiji such as its size, its origins, its indigenous mammals and a guide to Fijian language as well as essentials on how to get around, places to visit and activities, and where to stay. |
|
By Henry Britton
BiblioLife
Paperback (204 pages)
 | List Price: $23.75*
Lowest New Price: $14.95*
Lowest Used Price: $36.34*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here |
|
By John D. Kelly
University Of Chicago Press
Paperback (240 pages)
 | List Price: $20.00*
Lowest New Price: $18.09*
Lowest Used Price: $19.60*
Usually ships in 24 hours*
*(As of 12:24 Pacific 9 Feb 2010 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
In 1983 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that "print capitalism" fostered nations as imagined communities in a modular form that became the culture of modernity.
Now, in Represented Communities, John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan offer an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's depictions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology. The authors build a forceful argument around events in Fiji from World War II to the 2000 coups, showing how focus on "imagined communities" underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They show that the "self-determining" nation-state actually emerged with the postwar construction of the United Nations, fundamentally changing the politics of representation.
Sophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms. |
|
| |
