The Pacific Voyages
of Rollo Beck:
A Reading List of Pacific History
The following
list of selected readings were all found in the San Francisco Public Libraries.
Ask your local librarian for assistance in locating these or other related materials.
Bellwood, Peter S. The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People. London: Thames and Hudson,
1987. ISBN 0500274509
Biersack, Aletta Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology [sic]. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1991.
ISBN 0874743044
Campbell, I. C. A History of the Pacific Islands. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1989. ISBN
0520069013
Cook, James The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections
of his own journals,1768-1779. New York: Dover Publishing, 1971.
Craig, Robert D. and Frank P. King Historical Dictionary of Oceania. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.
ISBN 0313210608
Crawford, Peter Nomads of the Wind: A Natural History of Polynesia. London: BBC Books,
1993. ISBN
0563367075
Finney, Ben R. Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994.
ISBN 0520080025
Howe, K. R., Robert C. Kiste, and Brij V. Lal, ed. Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century. Honolulu,
University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
ISBN 0824815971
Kirch, Patrick Vinton Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory.
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
ISBN 0814809815
Maude, H. E. Slavers in Paradise: The Peruvian Slave Trade in Polynesia, 1862-1864.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981.
ISBN 0804711062
Moss, Joyce and George Wilson Peoples of the World. Asians and Pacific Islanders: The Culture, Geographical
Setting, and Historical Background of 41 Asian and Pacific Island Peoples.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.
ISBN 0810388669
Sahlins, Marshall Islands of History. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1985.
ISBN 0226733580
Sharp, Andrew The Discovery of the Pacific Islands. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.
ISBN 0313246890
