Australasia and South Pacific Islands Bibliography

This is a notably ambitious attempt to provide an up‐to‐date, introductory bibliography in one volume ranging from tiny Pacific islands such as Nauru and Niue to New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, and to Australia, a continent almost as great in area as the USA. All of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia are included, excepting only Hawaii. This increasingly integrated region covered by Australian librarian John Thawley’s unannotated bibliography is geographically vast and culturally, economically, and politically diverse.

The relevant literature is immense in quantity. Exceptionally rigorous selection of entries has confined the volume to its manageable size of just over...