Geography and Geology

Margin Fades, The ; Geographical Itineraries in a World of Islands edited by Eric Waddell and Patrick Nunn.  ISBN 9820200911. Published by The Institute of Pacific Studies. Recommended retail price $26.

Just as geographers have made a substantial contribution to the study of the Pacific, so the Pacific has made a significant impact on the discipline of geography and on certain of its practitioners.  Research and reflection the region was for long limited to a select group of metropolitan institutions, a distant oceanic realm serving simply as an object of their interest.  The birth of universities in the islands, notably the University of the South Pacific in 1968, has changed all that.

The Margin Fades serves 25 years on to measure some of the accomplishments of its Geography Department, to assemble the work of a new generation of geographers either born in the Pacific of who chose to gravitate from the ‘center’ to the ‘margins’.

The thirteen essays presented here offer a refreshingly new portrait of geography in the Pacific: new perspectives, new  research priorities, a refusal to be constrained by traditional disciplinary boundaries or by some imaginary frontier between pure and applied endeavor, a blending of scientific investigation and of individual experience. Soft cover, 297 pages. Published in 1993.

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