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THE PACIFIC WORLD: Its Vast Distances, Its Lands and the Life Upon Them, and Its
by OSBORN, Fairfield. ed
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New York [1944], Norton. Blue coth, very clean, solid copy, with dust jacket notes tipped inside the back cover, 218p., index, tables & factual summaries, 9 color plates, 9 region maps, 15 x 22 cm., bright copy. FIRST EDITION The writings of: Robert M. Chapin Jr., Andrey Avinoff, Francis Lee Jaques, Joy Flinsch Buba, Charles Clark, George F. Mason. * With chapter headings: 1. The Ocean 2. The Islands 3. Discovery and Exploration 4. Climates, winds, currents and tides 5. Stars over Melanesia 6. The Native peoples 7. Ocean life 8. Mammals 9. Birds 10. Reptiles, amhibians, and insects 11 Plants. 12. Australia and New Zealand 13. Melanesia: New Guinea, New Britain, The Bismark . Archipleago, The Solomon Islands, The New hebrides, New . Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, the Fimi Islands. . 14. The Netherlands Indies: Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Celebes, . Timor, The Lesser Sunda Islands, The Spice Islands . [Moluccas] . 15. The Philippine Islands: Luzon, Cebu, Mindanao, Palawan. 16. Micronesia: The Palau Islands, The Croline Islands, the . Marianas Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Gilbert . Islands, the Ellice Islands. . 17. Polynesia: The Tonga Islands, Samoa, the Phoenix . Islands, the Society Islands, the Marquesas Islands, the . Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, Tuamotu, Easter . Island. . 18. The Aleutian, the Pribilof, and the Galapagos Islands. 19. Formosa, the Luchu, The Kurile and the Sakhalin Islands. 20. Japan. *** Excellent monograph, dealing with a different perspective on this vast area and peoples. *** .
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- OSBORN, Fairfield. ed
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- Southeast Asia: Eclectic Items On Countries, Cultures & Subjects; Indonesia: All Disciplines & Aspects Of The People, Culture & Country; Philippines:eclectica On The Islands, People, Culture, History &c...; Japan Natural History: All Aspec
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