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Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Fiji.
144 pages, Library Binding
First published September 28, 2010
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March 5, 2024
The edition I got from the library is a different one than what it suggests here (Third Edition, published in 2020), but it will take time to track down the exact picture they decided to use and this one works sufficiently enough.
I didn't know a great deal of what this book has to offer. There is interesting flora and fauna on Fiji. People haven't died after eating some of it, or even gotten too sick. There are plenty of kinds of animals that I had researched before, and some others that I had not.
This book also describes the religious and cultural makeup of the island, as of 2017. I wrote of the placating effects of Scriabin that year on my LiveJournal, a Russian piano composer.
One of my Latin names I picked long before then was Placida. I selected that one as a way to calm myself down. I didn't know at that time that I would become prone to panic attacks.
This book says that neither Russians nor Romans have ever visited this island before. So no wonder I didn't know anything about it either.
The book is about a place I've never been myself, but I learned from this book that it is a hide-out for kraits (which are not like plaits, but are poisonous sea snakes) and is where some of the great coral reefs might be found! (I don't know, like under it, I guess.) There are other interesting facets I probably didn't catch this go round, but maybe next time I read it I'll see them.
However now I'll give it back so someone else has a chance to read about this place.
I didn't know a great deal of what this book has to offer. There is interesting flora and fauna on Fiji. People haven't died after eating some of it, or even gotten too sick. There are plenty of kinds of animals that I had researched before, and some others that I had not.
This book also describes the religious and cultural makeup of the island, as of 2017. I wrote of the placating effects of Scriabin that year on my LiveJournal, a Russian piano composer.
One of my Latin names I picked long before then was Placida. I selected that one as a way to calm myself down. I didn't know at that time that I would become prone to panic attacks.
This book says that neither Russians nor Romans have ever visited this island before. So no wonder I didn't know anything about it either.
The book is about a place I've never been myself, but I learned from this book that it is a hide-out for kraits (which are not like plaits, but are poisonous sea snakes) and is where some of the great coral reefs might be found! (I don't know, like under it, I guess.) There are other interesting facets I probably didn't catch this go round, but maybe next time I read it I'll see them.
However now I'll give it back so someone else has a chance to read about this place.
January 11, 2024
I read the 2020 edition in preparation for our trip to Fiji in January 2024.
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