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112 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps., ports. Table of contents includes: Geology & geography -- How we know about the past -- The arrival of a seafaring people -- The end of isolation : explorers and travellers -- What the Europeans & Polynesians discovered about each other -- European empires -- Living under colonial rule -- War in the Pacific -- The Cook Islands -- Fiji -- French Polynesia -- Niue -- Samoa -- Tokelau -- Tonga -- Tuvalu -- Polynesian outliers : Wallis, Futuna & Rotuma -- The South Pacific & the world -- Historical mysteries. NZ post book ward finalist 2007