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1981 Year Book on sale
The Pacific Islands Year Book (14th edition). Published by Pacific Publications, GPO Box 3408, Sydney $ A 32.50. or 5U535.00 posted. National Li brary of Australia ISBN 0 85807 049 9; Library of Con gress (USA) Catalogue Card Number 32-24429.
This new edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book, long re garded as the ‘Bible of the Pacific', keeps up with, and in some cases gallops ahead of, the latest political changes in this vast area of millions of square kilometres of ocean and 39 island political entities. Since the 13th edition appeared in 1978, Tuvalu. Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have achieved independence, and the three island groups of Micronesia forming the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands have reached the half way house in their relationship with the United States, which has been scheduled to terminate the trusteeship this year.
This new edition gives latest available information on all these important changes together with lists of the people in the new governments, infor
mation which cannot be found elsewhere within the covers of a single book.
There is also a new, and lengthy, article on the Law of the Sea by an expert on the subject which spells out the problems and the obstacles to agreement encountered in the latest Law of the Sea Confer ence being held at present in New York.
The history and geography of all the individual islands form an important part of the Year Book, and the various facets of life in the islands, their social life and customs, the economy, trade, taxation, education, are amply covered.
The Year Book also contains most of the answers which
intending tourists find difficulty
in getting from tourist agencies.
There are more than 80 maps along with a large, coloured fold-out map of the Pacific which embodies the most recent changes in the names of many islands, especially in newly in
dependcnt countries.