Bibliography of non-indigenous literary writings on the Pacific

Dedicated to Andy Warhol and cleverly packaged with mock period engravings <strong>of</strong> Pacific
exploration and a photo-novel.
Plays with the old stereotypes <strong>of</strong> cannibals etc. and tends to reproduce them as it
mocks them. Focus is primarily on New York and on the cleverness <strong>of</strong> the writer, rather on
the Pacific.
@Jarves, James Jackson [R.?], Kiana: a Tradition <strong>of</strong> Hawaii, Boston: James
Monroe/London: S. Low, ^1857, %UK?US %POL Haw *Fic search
first novel about Hawaii (Day) search
newspaper editor and historian, wrote Historiy <strong>of</strong> the Hawaiian Islands 1847
@Johns, Capt. W.E., Biggles in the South Seas, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, ^1962,
%UK #Pac *Fic juv.
@Johnson, B.S., Trawl, London: Panther, ^1966, %UK #?? *Fic search
@Johnston, Ronald, Paradise Smith, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, ^1972,
%US? #MEL *Fic 823.9/JOH-9/2 grant
Set on a river on an island dominated by a snow-capped volcano, somewhere
between New Guinea and the Philippines, with cockatoos, birds <strong>of</strong> paradise, pigs and yams.
A combination <strong>of</strong> Shangri-la, The African Queen and Fitzcarraldo. The self-made solitary man
survives coastwatching by working with 'headhunters' and falling into a secret cavern loaded
with gold belonging to a mountain tribe descended from the Chimu Indians. He is rescued by
and brings up the Dutch-Javanese boy whom he manipulates into becoming president <strong>of</strong> an
independent republic during Soekarno's bid for West New Guinea. Nature throws everything it
has at this man -- volcanic eruption, flood, jungle, and an American girl, sister <strong>of</strong> a crazed
Korean vet./missionary who has betrayed the presence <strong>of</strong> the mountain people to an exboyfriend
anthropologist. He tells the president, who realises Smith has the gold and seeks
revenge. Lots <strong>of</strong> native drums in the background, and an overload <strong>of</strong> short, rapid-fire
sentences and nautical lore. The politics shows some Eurocentric wishful thinking (one in the
eye for that upstart Sukarno, a nice balance <strong>of</strong> game-park and native reserve and US military
base on the part <strong>of</strong> a 'tame' ruler), much paternalism (the chief <strong>of</strong> the mountain people is
nicknamed 'pogostick' by Smith, who once saved his life) and has the presence <strong>of</strong> an
American on Smith's boat save the day at the hurriedly concocted end <strong>of</strong> the book. On a par
with Noel Barber, but a much livelier read.
Disaster at Dungeness
Red Sky in the Morning
The Stowaway
The Wrecking <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fshore Five
The Angry Ocean
The Black Camels
@Jones, James, From here to Eternity, New York: Chas Scribner's Sons, ^1951/London:
Collins, 1952 %US #POL Haw *Fic War search PS3560/O49F7 Main, U.Q.
story :"The Way it is" wartime Honolulu, in Day & Stroven HR, originally in
Harper's Magazine, June 1949
@Jones, James, Go to the Widow Maker, NY: Delacorte Press, ^1967 ??? U.Q.
search
@Jones, James, The Ice-cream Headache and other Stories, NY: Delacorte Press, ^1968
???? U.Q. search
@Jones, James, The Thin Red Line, NY: Scribner, ^1962???? U.Q. search
@Jones, James, A Touch <strong>of</strong> Danger, NY: Doubleday, 1973 ??????? U.Q. search
@Jones, James, Whistle, NY: Delacorte Press, ^1978 ?????? U.Q. search
@Karlin, Alma, Drachen und Geister: Novellen aus China, Insulinde und der Südsee, Berlin:
Frundsberg, ^1930, %GM #PAC *stories serend224/971