num_pages: 303
description: Before the invasion by tourists, writer Nancy Phelan worked in the South Pacific. As a member of the South Pacific Commission staff, she spent months of each year in the islands - New Caledonia, Fiji, Niue, Tonga, Western Samoa, American Samoa, the Northern and Southern Cook Islands, Tahiti, Ocean Island, Nauru, the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati).Almost forty years later she returned to Kiribati, Samoa and the Cook Islands, rekindling the enchantment of that earlier era and seeing first-hand the changes brought by Independence. The result is an exhilarating, often very funny account of Island life in the 1950s from the perspective of the 1990s.
language: English
title: Pieces of Heaven: In the South Seas
titlecomplete: Pieces of Heaven: In the South Seas
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Univ of Queensland Pr