Stewart's Handbook of the Pacific Islands


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Excerpt from Stewart's Handbook of the Pacific Islands: A Reliable Guide to All the Inhabited Islands of the Pacific Ocean; For Traders, Tourists and Settlers; With a Bibliography of Island Works It is conducted on the House system of the great English Public Schools, each House having its own equipment and ample grounds. With resident Master and Matron. Old Govern ment House (parramatta) is the Junior House, in which boys of between 8 and I2 reside. Headmaster: The Reverend J: A. Pattinson, m.a., Cambridge, assisted by a Staff of Masters graduates of the English and Australian Universities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




The Pacific Century


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000545853 - 99/615 A Robert Stewart book.




Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands


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"This book is for the person who lives in the tropics or subtropics and is interested in native plants, who wants to know about plants that are useful, who loves to watch plants grow, and who is willing to work with them. Such a person might ask questions like, Where will they grow? How do I grow them? Are they good to eat? How are they used? What are their names? These questions and more are answered here."--Préface