My Colonial Fiji

My Colonial Fiji
Author: Beverley Margaret Angus
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466935006

Hear the word Fiji and you are likely to think of turquoise waters, lush foliage and a year-round tropical paradise. But this island nation is more than a place to which to escape. Its fascinating history includes a brief background as to how Fiji became a British Crown Colony between 1874 and 1970, which period is overlapped by the monopoly of Fiji's sugar industry by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR) of Australia between 1880 and 1973 when sugar was the mainstay of Fiji's economy.

Pacific Island Landscapes

Pacific Island Landscapes
Author: Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher: [email protected]
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1998
Genre: Geology, Structural
ISBN: 9789820201293

"Pacific island landscapes explores the origin and physical history of one of the least known regions of the Earth's surface - the Pacific Islands. Never before has such a systematic account of the island groups been compiled. In this volume, Patrick Nunn outlines how each of the main island groups originated then gives detailed accounts - much from his own research -- - of islands in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. A final substantive chapter treats the interaction of early human settlers of Pacific Islands and their environments."--Back cover