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Kava in the blood / Peter Thomson.

Title
Kava in the blood / Peter Thomson.
Author
Thomson, Peter, 1948-
Publication
Auckland, New Zealand : Tandem Press, 1999.

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Description
240 p. : map; 21 cm.
Subject
  • Thomson, Peter, 1948-
  • 1987
  • Kava plant > Fiji
  • Fiji > Politics and government
  • Fiji > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Subtitle on cover: A personal & political memoir from the heart of Fiji.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The source -- Coup d'etat -- Makuluva -- Dum spiro spero -- Mongoose on the lawn -- Great Council of Chiefs -- Vaturekuka hill -- He knows what to do -- Suva rain -- Cold comfort kava -- In praise of Kava -- Taukei movers -- Fields of Vunidawa -- Death threats -- Lautoka cane fires -- Salvaging the economy -- Taveuni -- The Governor General's path -- The never simple truth -- Fiji patois -- Buckingham Palace -- The Deuba Accord -- Bali Hai profiles -- Arrest at Musket Cove -- Return to Navua -- Mountains tower up -- Imprisonment -- Declaration of the Republic -- Lay of the land.
ISBN
1877178543
OCLC
  • 47741690
  • SCSB-11313391
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library