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Michael Field, Pacific journalist
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Books my own - and others
New Zealand's tragic blunders in Samoa
A definitive account of New Zealand's rule of Samoa and the oppression of the Mau self government movement. It also features an account of the tragedy of the Spanish influenza epidemic which hit Samoa harder than anywhere else in the world. Reed Publishers
Speight of Violence Inside Fiji's hostage crisis With Tupeni and Unaisi Baba
An account of a journalist, a hostage politician and a wife of events around George Speight's 2000 coup. Reed Publishers
The execution of New Zealanders in the Pacific
A group of New Zealanders - Post Office workers and unarmed soldiers - were sent into the Pacific to watch out for German warship raiders at the start of World War II. When Japan entered the war they were abandoned by Wellington to their fate; execution by sword swinging Japanese soldiers. This is a vivid account of that and reveals a startling link to the Featherston POW camp massacre - and the children left behind. Unpublished
Some other Pacific books
The future of Tokelau: Decolonising Agendas 1975-2006 Judith Huntsman with Kelihiano Kalolo
An outstanding insight into the diplomatic pressures from Wellington to force Tokelau into independence of a kind ... all to please the UN. Auckland University Press
Stopover Bruce Connew with a story by Brij V Lal
A delicate, stylish photographic book on Fiji's Indians; moving and outstanding. Victoria University Press
Pacific Genes & Life Patents Pacific Indigenous Experiences & Analysis of the Commodification & Ownership of Life Editors: Aroha Te Pareake Mead and Steven Ratuva
Overlook the title - this is an important South Pacific book. It lists some of the major "biopiracy" intrusions into the Pacific, while offering a detailed resource on international law and treaty. Read more Call of Earth, UN University Institute of Advanced Studies
Fiji: An encyclopaedic Atlas Crosbie Walsh
An interesting, pre-Internet concept; the kind of information found on Google these days - but in book form. Its impressive, if a little too staid and academic, but no doubt suits its purpose well. The authors deserve applause for trying to bring together a statistical picture of Fiji. A most for every regional library. University of the South Pacific
The White Pacific Gerald Horne
Sensational material - dreadful writing. This is a book deserving to be written and the research is impressive. It just happens to be written in an academic style that makes it inpentretrable except for Pacific history students obliged to read it. With its accounts of the KKK in the Pacific, graphic blackbirding and murder and death, it virtually writes itself. Unfortunately Professor Horne has killed his otherwise unstoppable book. University of Hawaii Press
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