Tropical Pacific
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Handy Volume On The
Although written specifically for secondary school students, "The Tropical Pacific", by N. V. Harris, will probably be of value to others who want a working knowledge of the physical, human and economic geography of this region.
The author attacks his subject on a pretty broad base, covers most of the Pacific groups from Hawaii to the Tropic of Capricorn in 170-odd pages, and avoids, where possible, exact statistics which do more than any thing else to make a book of this type out of date before it is printed.
The book has plenty of uncompli cated maps and diagrams and is illus trated with photographs of the islands covered.
Mr. Harris was once senior master at Levuka public school, Fiji. (He has now, presumably, returned to New Zealand.) He has a good brisk style and writes like a man with first-hand experience of the Pacific.—JT.
(The Tropical Pacific. Uni
versity of London Press. 20/- Stg.)