Growing

interest

The review by Mr J Cornell of the travel guide and handbook Sudsee by Eberhard Stahn was very well done.

No doubt there is a strong and growing interest in Pacific affairs among German scholars and the general public. This has been the case for quite a few years.

With keen eyes and some times with sorrow we observe developments.

Mr Cornell mentions the ommissions in Stahn’s work of the Maoris and Papua New Guinea.

But one should add that the handbook series of Mai’s Reise fuhrer Verlag contains several books, each one dealing with certain regions of the Pacific.

Thus, number 15 is the volume on New Zealand, num ber 36 deals with Australia and, in number 33, I myself have written extensively on Papua New Guinea. Every book, then, should be seen in connection with the total presentation of Pacific publications in the Ger man language.

There are hundreds of high quality accounts in our book shelves, but, of course, they are hardly noticed by non-German speaking people.

Dr Friedrich Steinbauer,

German Pacific Society, Munich, West Germany.