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Writing

If you are solely interested in my writing for the non-specialist, then you might definitely be interested in Worlds in Shadow and The Edge of Memory and Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific which I wrote with the intention of explaining some of the fascinating research and ideas current in various fields to the widest possible readership.  Please click on the appropriate book title below to find out more about each of these … and read some of their reviews.

In a similar vein, I have also written many popular articles, a selection of which can be found by clicking the appropriate links below.  These are mostly based on my recent projects.

And then below I also include a series of full-colour posters of mine that you are free to reproduce.

You may also be interested in the four older books in the list below, as well as looking at my edited books and monographs and my academic publications.

One of the books I enjoyed when I was a student was E.M. Forster’s The Longest Journey, an anecdote from which features in Worlds in Shadow incidentally. One section in Forster’s novel I marked was when the invitation was issued, “Talk away. If you bore us, we have books“. We do indeed!

Books

A close up of a book shelf

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Piérick Martin and Patrick Nunn on the summit of Seseleka, a fortified mountaintop in Bua (Fiji) – January 2018

Popular Articles

The Bujangga Manik (56 lines of narrative verse written on 29 palm leaves about 500 years ago) is a Sundanese tradition that featured in my 2018 book The Edge of Memory (Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Digital Bodleian)

Posters

Fiji’s earliest settlement is probably that at Bourewa (Nadroga) from which radiocarbon ages indicate people arrived as much as 1150 BC (about 3100 years ago). This is Pit E10, perhaps the earliest part of the site (Photo by Patrick Nunn).