Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific. Michael Moran

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       Epigraph

       I have always thought the situation of a Traveller singularly hard. If he tells nothing that is uncommon he must be a stupid fellow to have gone so far, and brought home so little; and if he does, why – it is hum – aya – a tap of the Chin; – and – ‘He’s a Traveller.’

      WILLIAM WALES

      Astronomer and Meteorologist

      Captain Cook’s Second Voyage in the Resolution

      Journal 13 May, 1774

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Maps

Prologue

1 Forsaking Pudding Island

2 The Eye of the Eagle

3 ‘No More ’Um Kaiser, God Save ’Um King’

4 Death is Lighter than a Feather

5 Too Hard a Country for Soft Drinks

6 ‘Mr Hallows Plays No Cricket. He’s Leaving on the Next Boat.’

       7 Constitutional Crisis in Makamaka

       8 ‘O Maklai, O Maklai!’ or The Archipelago of Contented People

       9 Kolonialpolitik Defeats the Man from the Moon

       10 Minotaurs on Gilded Couches

       11 Feverish Nightmares

       12 Grand Opening – Tsoi Island General Store

       13 An Account of the Criminal Excesses of Charles Bonaventure du Breil

       14 ‘In Loveing Memory’

       15 ‘The Sick Man Goes Down with the Plane’

       16 ‘Rabaul i blow up!’

       17 Queen Emma

       18 A Moveable Feast

       19 ‘No Trespassing Except By Request’

       20 Auf Wiedersehn, Kannibalen

       21 Under the Mosquito Net in Malinowski’s Tent

       22 Farewell to That Strange and Fatal Glamour

       Epilogue

       Afterword

       Brief Chronology of Significant Historical Events in Papua New Guinea

       Bibliography of Principal Sources

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       Author’s Note

       About the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       Maps

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