Pacific University Books

Great, just great.This book is for anyone who is curious about the mind set of John D. Rockefeller Sr. I just wish it was more than 108 pages.

Sam MCKinney's books are what inspired me to build my power sharpie (see my other reviews). I'm 70, and I figured if he can do it so can I. So I can't wait to get my boat done and follow his Colimbia River tracks. He was a dedicated, motivated, independant, off the wall, adventurous Waterman that dedicated his life to the water and helping youth learn outdoor skills. His writings are simple, homey, and inspiring. Get them all.

Terry Lesh

This book exposes the colonial injustice that took place in the Congo Free State (currently called the Democratic Republic of Congo) under the leadership of the Belgian King, King Leopold II. I strongly recommend this book to anybody interested in the history of Africa.

Judith Binney teaches history at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and has written a brilliant and monumental biography of Te Kooti, a Maori guerilla leader and (above all) prophet who lived in nineteenth-century New Zealand. American readers will probably have little awareness of the complexity and fascination of nineteenth century New Zealand history and may find the world the book describes bewildering and unfamiliar at first.

Te Kooti came from the East Coast of the North Island and was wrongfully exiled to a penal colony for a crime he didn't commit. Later he escaped from the island, returned home and led a force of Maori _whakarau_ (exiles) into the heart of the North Island. The government forces never succeeded in capturing him. Te Kooti had many enemies, Maori and Pakeha, and the complexity of the Maori world at this time is brilliantly conveyed. The book is very strong on Te Kooti as a religious leader and prophet and is methodologically extremely interesting as well. I don't agree with every detail of the story, but that is only to be expected in a work of such richness and scope. American readers and scholars interested in the interaction between colonial empires and indigenous peoples will gain most from this book, which compares in many ways with Noel Mostert's _Frontiers_ or Roger Milliss' _Waterloo Creek_.

I am a saltwater aquarist that is in love with the coral reef and the ocean. I absolutely treasure this book. The detail and time spent to create this is intense. What a magnificent piece of work! Before I go to work, I poor a cup a coffee and browse through the pages a little at a time and think how much I'd rather be tracking these intresting and intrensic species that the ocean has to offer.

I purchased this map so that I could locate the rental property I was considering. It was tremendously helpful. I am able to find landmarks and make informed vacation plans. A wise purchase! I would recommend this to anyone considering a vacation to this "less travelled" island.

Global, US national, and local forces are finely articulated in this rich study of the literatures of Hawai'i and the counter-canons of Pacific possibility. While drenched in academic discourse and theory-speak, Wilson's wry humor and lyricism come through in chapter after chapter revealing the contestatory forces of an American Pacific coming unglued in the post-imperial era. This is an important work, deftly wrought, building upon and transforming what cultural studies can be in the trajectories of Birmingham into Asia/Pacific contexts.

to cultural poetics in timely, disjunctive, and importan ways from the interviews with Clifford and Said to the poems and stories and essays by indigenous peoples, settlers, interlopers, disciplinarians and a cast of thousands. I have used this text in a postcolonial writing course at Santa Cruz and it worked quite well to prod theory reflection and to thicken Pacific dimensionality. It is a well wrought text, finely made by editor and UH Press deserving broad circulation and use

Trafzer and Scheuerman's Renegade Tribe is a highly informative and interesting history of the Palouse Indians of eastern Washington. The book begins with Lewis and Clark's first contact with the tribe. It then covers each major conflict that occurred between whites and the Indians over the next century. It includes the early interactions with trappers and merchants, outbreaks of disease, the Whitman killings, the Walla Walla Council, the Yakima War, the Jesuit influence, the strengthening of the Washani (Ghost Dance) faith, the Col. Steptoe boondoggle, the Col. Wright campaigns (Battle of Four Lakes, killing of the horses, hanging of Indians, etc.), the dividing of the land into reservations, the Nez Perce War, the Indians' transition into homesteading, and the final, sad outcome of the Indians being almost entirely removed from their ancestral homelands by the early 1900s.

The Palouse Indians shared a language, family ties, and frequent interaction with other neighboring tribes (Yakima, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, etc.). Therefore, the book also covers a lot of information about these other tribes. There's a lot of information about the lives and fates of such Indian leaders such as Kamiakin, Tilcoax (Wolf Necklace), Peopeo Moxmox (Yellow Bird), Chief Joseph, and others. There's also some discussion about internal tribal politics and the factions that cemented and divided the tribes throughout the period.

The scholarship is first-rate. It is clear that the authors have thoroughly and meticulously researched their work. The 150 page text has an additional 50 pages of footnotes that include hundreds of sources. The citations boggle the mind. These guys really dug deep to get their story, and it seems like they confirmed everything they wrote with multiple sources, including oral histories from the Indians themselves. The illustrations and 10 pages of maps are also helpful for orienting the reader and following the action. Finally, many of the footnotes provide interesting anecdotes that help paint a larger picture.

If you have an interest in Native Americans, or early Northwest history (Washington, Idaho, Oregon and western Montana), then please add this to your reading list. While it is a terribly sad story, it is a fascinating one. And it is certainly a story that deserves to be told.

These days, celebrity authors earn thousands of dollars for a speech, but back in the 1880s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the first American author known to receive payment for delivering a talk, was paid $5 and oats for his horse.