Soon: The Story Of Queen Emma
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A new book entitled Queen Emma—The Story of a iamoan-American Girl who Established a Commercial Empire n 19th Century New Guinea, will be published in August.
was written by R. W. Robson, founder and long-time editor of ific Islands Monthly, who devoted •s of research, at intervals, to lering the authentic history and ing it into shape. The story of en Emma is one of the most Liresque in the history of the th Pacific Islands, wherein so y remarkable characters gained ninence. he central figure of this book born in 1850 as Emma Eliza , daughter of Jonas M. Coe, jrican Commercial Agent in oa, and she died in Monte Carlo Mrs. Paul Kolbe in 1913. She personally involved in many
famous incidents, such as Stein berger’s attempt to rule Samoa in 1875-76, the visit of King Kalakua to the United States in 1875, the deportation from Samoa of Stein berger and Coe in 1876, the attempt by Marquis de Rays to establish a colony in New Guinea in 1880-1882 and the annexation of New Guinea by Germany in 1884.
The book is being published by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. of Sydney which will publish, about the same time, PI M’s Pacific, a selection of the best stories that have appeared in the Pacific Islands Monthly in the last 15 years.