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"You want a yarn. You shall have one," said a young friend of mine, a midshipman, who had just returned from a four years' cruise in the Pacific. "I am not a good hand at describing what I have seen, but I can narrate better the adventures of others which they have told me.
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The opening and closing chapters of this study pertain to the region as a whole--the first giving a broad cultural and historical overview of Oceania and the last treating the region from a strategic perspective. The three intervening chapters deal with geographical, historical, social, economic, political, and security aspects of particular contemporary societies. Areas covered are: Melanesia--Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu; Micronesia--Guam, Kiribati, Nauru, and Trust Territory of the Pacific Island; and Polynesia--American Samoa, Cook Islands, Easter Island, French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, Toielau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna, and Western Samoa.
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"You want a yarn. You shall have one," said a young friend of mine, a midshipman, who had just returned from a four years' cruise in the Pacific. "I am not a good hand at describing what I have seen, but I can narrate better the adventures of others which they have told me.
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The opening and closing chapters of this study pertain to the region as a whole--the first giving a broad cultural and historical overview of Oceania and the last treating the region from a strategic perspective. The three intervening chapters deal with geographical, historical, social, economic, political, and security aspects of particular contemporary societies. Areas covered are: Melanesia--Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu; Micronesia--Guam, Kiribati, Nauru, and Trust Territory of the Pacific Island; and Polynesia--American Samoa, Cook Islands, Easter Island, French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, Toielau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna, and Western Samoa.
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