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Tin roofs and palm trees : a report on the new South Seas
- Title
- Tin roofs and palm trees : a report on the new South Seas / Robert Trumbull.
- Author
- Trumbull, Robert.
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1977.
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Details
- Description
- x, 302 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- " ... A portrait of the emerging island states and territories of the South Pacific painted by a journalist who has scrutinized the development in this romantic yet increasingly troubled area for thirty-five years. Robert Trumbell joined the staff of The New York Times in 1941 as Honolulu correspondent and served throughout World War II as a war correspondent in the Central Pacific arena ... Drawing on this background, Trumbell tells the story of each major island group, tracing its history, describing its current problems and prospects for the future ..."--Publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- For a new identity -- Bridging the ages -- Out of the jungle into the world -- Pacific pandemonium -- Nickel-plated paradise -- Flawed Eden -- Knights and cannibal forks -- Graustark South -- Too many cooks -- People-losers -- Two Samoas -- Smallest and richest -- Problem atolls -- Rusted trust -- South Seas community and the "Pacific way."
- ISBN
- 0295955449
- 9780295955445
- LCCN
- 76049164
- OCLC
- ocm02985275
- 2985275
- SCSB-276819
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library