On Fiji Islands - Ronald Wright
On Fiji Islands - Ronald Wright
Once feared as the ‘Cannibal Isles’, Fiji made a remarkable transition – from warring chiefdoms to British colony to independent nation – in little more than a century. Despite wave upon wave of missionaries, slavers, traders, imperialists and planters, the islanders emerged with their indigenous society, language and lands largely intact.
Meeting people from all walks of life, in bustling towns, quiet villages, remote valleys and jungled mountains, Ronald Wright’s skills as a writer and historian help him understand how this archipelago of vibrant cultures came to endure and thrive despite the pressures of the outside world.
Wright tells their story with wit and evident pleasure.
Eland also publish Cut Stones and Crossroads and Time Among the Maya by Ronald Wright.
‘Ronald Wright’s skills as an ethnologist, political historian, and travel writer have found an ideal outlet … an excellent book.’ The Independent
‘Ronald Wright is a superb travel writer with a vivid historical imagination.’ TLS
On Fiji Islands
ISBN: 978-1-78060-159-5
Format: 288pp demi pb
Place: Fiji, South Pacific
Author Biography
Ronald Wright is the author of ten books of fiction, history, essays and travel published in eighteen languages and more than forty countries. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won Britain’s David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen as a book of the year by the Sunday Times and the New York Times. Wright’s CBC Massey Lectures, A Short History of Progress, won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year and inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2011 documentary film Surviving Progress. His other bestsellers include Time Among the Maya and Stolen Continents, chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times. His latest work is The Gold Eaters, a novel set during the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire. Born in England to British and Canadian parents, Wright lives on Canada’s west coast.