The Pacific Way : A Memoir / Ratu Kamisese Mara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mara, Ratu Kamisese, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

1 Origins

2 Early Days

3 The Medical Bacillus

4 Bolt from the Dark Blue

5 Return to the Pacific: District Officer

6 First Time at the Centre

7 Towards Self-Government

8 The 1965 Constitutional Conference and Aftermath

9 A Commonwealth Round

10 Honours at Home and Abroad

11 The Path to Independence

12 Independence Countdown

13 Foreign Affairs

14 The Mid-Seventies

15 Back in Harness, 1977-1982

16 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings

17 Sugar

18 Pacific Regional Organisations

19 Proposals for a Government of National Unity and the 1982 Election

20 Forward from 1982

21 Military Takeover

22 Rebuilding

23 Mission Complete

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX 1 Chronological Record of the Career of the Right Honourable Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, GCMG, KBE, CF, KStJ, MSD

APPENDIX 2 Text of the Wakaya Letter

APPENDIX 3 The Secretary of State's Despatch

APPENDIX 4 Address to the United Nations

APPENDIX 5 Currents in the Pacific

APPENDIX 6 Graduation Address to Fiji College of Agriculture

APPENDIX 7 Tribute to the Late President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau

Glossary and Fijian Pronunciation

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)

ISBN:

0-8248-5111-0