Resource Guide:
Cook Islands

BOOKS

Lonely Planet Rarotonga and the Cook Islands by (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit) 3rd Edition, by Tony Wheeler, Nancy Keller

Cook Islands Companion, the Visitor's Guide to Rarotonga, by Elliot R. Smith

Tahiti Handbook: Including Easter Island and the Cooks, by David Stanley, 1999. Guidebook.

Ethnology of Manahiki and Rakahanga, by Peter Henry Buck, 1988. Nonfiction.

White Savages of the South Seas, a book on the history of piracy by Mel Kernahan, 1995. History/Nonfiction

Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener, 1989. Fawcett Books. Fiction

Frommer's South Pacific (6th Edition), Bill Goodwin, editor. Guidebook.

Ancient Tonga and the Lost City of Mli'a (Lost Cities of the Pacific Series), by David Hatcher Childress, Adventures Unlimited. Includes a chapter on Rarotonga. History/Culture.

Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, Donald Dehoon (editor) et al. History.

Contemporary Pacific Studies: Studies in Development and Change, by Victoria S. Lockwook, Thomas G. Harding, Ben J. Wallace (editor). Prentice Hall.

Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga, (The Pacific Library) by Noel Rutherford. University of Hawaii Press, 1996. Fiction.

INTERNET:

http://www.cookpages.com – menu of Cook Islands’ business and tourism sites

http://www.ck/ - geography, history, culture, religion, information on each island

http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/CWXX0001.html - current weather and 10-day forecasts

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