A comprehensive guide to visiting Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands that provides information on accommodations, restaurants, sights, tours, festivals, entertainment, shopping, transportation, and activities; and includes suggested itineraries as well as cultural and hist…
Includes extra coverage of the Soloman Islands. Sustainable travel tips highlighted throughout, and an Environment chapter written by Tim Flannery.
The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It quickly escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated the last of their forces…
This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industr…
This dissertation examines struggles over land and community on the island of Ranongga, in Western Province of Solomon Islands (a small independent Pacific nation that was a British Protectorate from 1893 until it gained independence in 1978). In order to understand late twentie…
The brutal fighting between US Marines and Japanese infantry on the island of Guadalcanal came to typify the island-hopping ground war in the Pacific during World War II. Focusing on the battle of Tenaru, the Henderson Field attack, and the Matanikau counteroffensive, this study…
A detailed account of the Americans' first ground offensive against the Japanese in World War II, which occurred in August 1942 on the island of Guadalcanal.
A detailed account of the Americans' first ground offensive against the Japanese in World War II, which occurred in August 1942 on the island of Guadalcanal.
"During 1943, the importance of destroyers in the Pacific became clear. The fierce night battles fought in the shallow waters of the Solomons were both a technological and a tactical struggle between the destroyer forces of the US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy. Early ... engag…
Victory at Guadalcanal for the Allies in February 1943 left them a vital foothold in the Solomon Islands chain, and was the first step in an attempt to isolate and capture the key Japanese base of Rabaul on New Britain. In order to do this they had to advance up the island chain…