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The Shark God : encounters with ghosts and ancestors in the South Pacific / Charles Montgomery.
Van Pelt Library BL2620.M4 M66 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montgomery, Charles, 1968-
- Standardized Title:
- Last heathen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Montgomery, Charles, 1968-.
- Travel.
- Melanesia--Religious life and customs.
- Melanesia.
- Montgomery, Charles, 1968---Travel--Melanesia.
- Montgomery, Charles.
- Melanesia--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 370 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperCollins edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [2006]
- Contents:
- A packet of sand
- The business of Port Vila is God
- Tanna: a conflagration of belief
- The prophet raises his hands to the sky
- Ninety hours on the MV brisk
- The book of Espiritu Santo
- The word and its meaning
- The island of magic and fear
- The curse of Gaua
- The parishioners' paradise
- Death and marriage on Mota
- The secret of West Vanua Lava
- My first Tasiu
- Guadalcanal, the unhappy isle
- The bishop of Malaita
- A short walk in East Kwaio
- Raiders of the Nono lagoon
- Under the Langa Langa lagoon
- The brothers and their miracles
- Nukapu and the meaning of stories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-370).
- Originally published: The Last heathen. Vancouver, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, 2004.
- ISBN:
- 006076516X
- OCLC:
- 62085517
- Publisher Number:
- 9780060765163
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