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The Marquesas and Tuamotu Islands and French Polynesia
Wayne Andersen
Gauguin’s Paradise Lost, (New York: Viking, 1971)
Sharon
Chester,
Heidy Baumgartner,
Diana Frechoso and
James Oetzel
The Marquesas Islands: Mave Mai, (San Mateo,
California: Wandering Albatross, 1998) This comprehensive text
covers the geography, history, archaeology, flora and fauna
of the Marquesas Islands, a part of French Polynesia. There
are color photos and maps of the islands, major towns and archaeological
sites. Color photos and drawings of common plants, marine mammals,
fish and marine shells illustrate the natural history section.
All bird species of the area are described and illustrated.
A bibliography and short course on speaking Marquesan are included.
Captain
James Cook
The Voyages of the Endeavor, 1768-1771
vol. I of The Journals of Captain James Cook, EDITED BY j.c.
Beaglehole, 4 vols. In 5 (Cambridge: Kakuyt Society, 1955)
Bengt
Danielsson
Forgotten Islands of the South Seas, translated
by F.H. Lyon (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1957). A book about
the Marquesas Islands.
Bengt Danielsson, Gauguin in the South Seas, (Garden City, New
York: Doubleday, 1965)
Bengt Danielsson
et P. O’Really
Gauguin, Journaliste a Tahiti et ses Articles des “Guepes”
(Paris: Societe des Oceanistes, 1966). A collection of articles
by Paul Gauguin which appeared in Les Guepes from June 12, 1899
to August 18, 1901.
Greg Dening
Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a Silent
Land, Marquesas, 1774-1880 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,
1980)
Greg Dening
The Marquesas (Papeete, Tahiti: Societe Nouvelle des Editions
du Pacifique, 1982)
Richard Field
Gauguin and Exotic Art, (Philadelphia Museum
of Art, 1970)
E.S.C. Handy, Marquesan Legends, (Honolulu, Hawaii: the Museum,
1930; N.Y.: Kraus)
E.S.C. Handy
The Native Culture in the Marquesas (Bernice P. Bishop Museum,
Bulletin No. 9, Honolulu: the Museum, 1923; New York: Kraus)
T. Walter Herbert,
Jr.
Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the
Meaning of Civilization, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1980)
Thor Heyerdahl
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday,
1974
Ralph Linton
Archeology of the Marquesas Islands, (Honolulu,
Hawaii: the Museum 1925; New York: Kraus)
Larry McMurtry
Paradise, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001) A novel
on Larry McMurtry’s trip to the paradise of Tahiti and
the South Sea Islands on board the freighter cruise ship, Aranui
at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of
her own.
Herman Melville
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the
South Seas; a Sequel to “Typee; or the Marquesas Islands”
(Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1968)
Herman Melville
Typee: A Real Romance of the South Seas, (New York: New American
Library, 1964)
Jan Prince
Tahiti & French Polynesia Guide, (New
York: Open Road Publishing, 1998) A comprehensive travel guide
to Tahiti and her islands.
Edward Roberts
The Marquesan Journal of Edward Robarts, 1767-1824, edited
by Greg Dening, (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press,
1974)
Yosihiko H. Sinoto
Hideaki Sato
Marquesas Islands, (Tokyo, Japan: Heibonsha
Ltd, 1996) A pictorial narrative of the Maruqesas Islands.
The Hidden World of Polynesia: The Chronicle of an Archeological
Expedition to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, (New York:
Harcourt Brace, 1962)
Manuiota’a: Journal of a Voyage to the Marquesas Islands,
(Boise, Idaho: Pa’eke Press, 2001) As passengers on the
freighter Aranui, the authors describe all the islands of this
Polynesian paradise, from north to south, from Nuku Hiva to
Fatu Iva. In so doing, they do more than merely provide us with
a view of the exotic beauty of the Marquesan islands and their
charming inhabitants. Their suspense-filled journal gives us
insights into the mysterious Marquesan culture and the long
and turbulent history of the archipelago, which as been so deeply
impacted by colonization.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In the South Seas, Being An Account of
Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and
Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two cruises, on the Yacht “Casco”
(1888) and the Schooner “Equator” (1889), (Honolulu,
Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1971)
