Reviews

Abstract Navigating the Spanish Lake: The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521–1898, Rainer Buschmann, Edward Slack Jr and James Tueller (2014) Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 200 pp., ISBN 978 0 8248 3824 9 (hbk), US$47 Dumont d’Urville: Explorer and Polymath, Edward Duyker (2014) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 664 pp., ISBN 978 1 8775 7870 0 (hbk), NZ$70 Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People, David Armitage and Alison Bashford (2014) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 392 pp., ISBN 978 1 1370 0163 4 (pbk), £21.99 Outcasts of the Gods? The Struggle over Slavery in Māori New Zealand, Hazel Petrie (2015) Auckland: Auckland University Press, 456 pp., ISBN 978 1 8694 0830 5 (pbk), NZ$45 Beyond the Imperial Frontier: The Contest for Colonial New Zealand, Vincent O’Malley (2014) Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 284 pp., ISBN 978 1 9272 7753 9 (pbk), NZ$49.99 From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand’s Scots Migrants 1840–1920, Rebecca Lenihan (2015) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 316 pp., ISBN 978 1 8775 7879 3 (pbk), NZ$45 Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand, Louise Signal and Mihi Ratima (eds) (2015) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 324 pp., ISBN 978 1 8775 7882 3 (pbk), NZ$45 Book of New Zealand Words, Dianne Bardsley (2013) Wellington: Te Papa Press, 336 pp., ISBN 978 1 8773 8584 1 (hbk), NZ$44.99 Hocken, Prince of Collectors, Donald Jackson Kerr (2015) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 424 pp., ISBN 978 1 8775 7866 3 (hbk), NZ$60 The Lives of Colonial Objects, Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds) (2015) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 376 pp., ISBN 978 1 9273 2202 4 (pbk), US$50 From Samoa with Love? Samoan Travellers in Germany 1895–1911: Retracing the Footsteps, Hilke Thode-Arora (ed.) (2014) Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 224 pp., ISBN 978 3 7774 2239 8 (hbk), US$55.00 The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labour and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network, Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers (2015) Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 240 pp., ISBN 978 0 8248 4002 0 (hbk), US$50 Living Kinship in the Pacific, Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels (eds) (2015) New York: Berghahn Books, 274 pp., ISBN 978 1 7823 8577 6 (hbk), US$120 Huihui: Navigating Art and Literature in the Pacific, Jeffrey Carroll, Brandy Nalani McDougall and Georganne Nordstrom (eds) (2015) Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 308 pp., ISBN 978 0 8248 3895 9 (pbk), US$29 The Fitzgerald Brothers’ Circus: Spectacle, Identity, Nationhood at the Australian Circus, Gillian Arrighi (2015) Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 262 pp., ISBN 978 1 9250 0358 1 (pbk), AUD$44 The Critic’s Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971–2013, Christina Barton and Robert Leonard (eds) (2014) Wellington: Victoria University Press, 512 pp., ISBN 978 0 8647 3932 2 (hbk), NZ$80 The Adventures of Jonathan Dennis: Bicultural Film Archiving Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Emma Jean Kelly (2016) New Barnet: John Libbey Publishing, 200 pp., ISBN 978 0 8619 6722 3 (pbk), £20 The Deepening Stream: A History of the New Zealand Literary Fund, Elizabeth Caffin and Andrew Mason (2015) Wellington: Victoria University Press, 304 pp., ISBN 978 1 7765 6036 3 (pbk), NZ$40 Maurice Gee: Life and Work, Rachel Barrowman (2015) Wellington: Victoria University Press, 543 pp., ISBN 978 0 8647 3992 6 (hbk), NZ$60 The Conch Trumpet, David Eggleton (2015) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 124 pp., ISBN 978 1 8775 7893 9 (pbk), NZ$25 Heartland, Michele Leggott (2014) Auckland: Auckland University Press, 120 pp., ISBN 978 1 8694 0808 4 (pbk), NZ$27.99 Edwin’s Egg & Other Poetic Novellas, Cilla McQueen (2014) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978 1 8775 7813 7 (pbk), NZ$39.95 The White Clock, Owen Marshall (2014) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 94 pp., ISBN 978 1 8775 7863 2 (pbk), NZ$25 Whale Years, Gregory O’Brien (2015) Auckland: Auckland University Press, 100 pp., ISBN 978 1 8694 0832 9 (pbk), NZ$25