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• We Were Going to Win, or Die There

  With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan

  Elrod, Roy H., 1919-2016

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  In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. This placed him on course to experience some of World War II's most savage combat. Entering the Marine Corps as an enlisted man, Elrod rose rapidly. By the time his unit, the 8th…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bwai Ni Kiribati

  Artefacts of Experience

  Whincup, Tony, 1944-

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  Bwai ni Kiribati blends Tony Whincup's ethnographic essays with his photos of Kiribati, 30 years on from its birth as an independent nation of Pacific islands that touch all four hemispheres of the globe. The book covers traditions, meeting houses,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Akekeia!

  Traditional Dance in Kiribati

  Whincup, Tony, 1944-

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• Consuming Ocean Island

  Stories of People and Phosphate From Banaba

  Teaiwa, Katerina Martina

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  Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Acclimatising to Higher Ground

  the Realities of Life of a Pacific Atoll People

  Dixon, Keith

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  Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern!…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lord, Here Comes the Flood

  Investigating the Chains of Climate Change Discourses in Kiribati

  Hansen, Lasse Kolbjørn Anke

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• Te Rii Ni Banaba

  Backbone of Banaba

  Sigrah, Raobeia Ken, 1956-

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  Te Rii ni Banaba - backbone of Banaba, is a history of Banaba, situated in the Central Pacific, once known as Ocean Island. By recording genealogies, myths, legends, customs, culture, magic rituals and the long-kept secrets of the te Aka clan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Te Moan Ni

  The First Coconut Tree : a Traditional Story

  Pinder-Pancho, Azra

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  Have you wondered how the first coconut tree appeared on the islands of Tungaru? In this traditional myth, find out how a man's love for his wife created the first coconut tree.

• Kiribati

  An Island World Vanishes Into the Ocean

  Piciocchi, Alice, 1985-

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  Kiribati is an island nation in the vast blue of the Pacific Ocean. Composed of thirty-two atolls and three groups of islands, Kiribati lies halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The largest and best-known of the many coral islands is Kiritimati,…Read moreRead more of this annotation