YEARS of the POOH-BAH, A Cook Islands History, by Dick Scott - 1991

Cook Islands Trading Corporation, Rarotonga, New Zealand - 1991 hardcover, 19cms x 25½cms, with dust jacket Previous owner's name on verso of front endpaper. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket What an odd assortment of characters New Zealand sent to administer the Cook Islands during 75 years of colonial rule. The power-drunk and the benevolent, dull bureaucrats and bewildered misfits - long-suffering Cook Islanders saw them all. This book raises questions of particular interest to students of New Zealand history. How was the annexation document prepared? What was the fate of 500 soldiers recruited for World War One? How did the responsible Ministers respond to the Cook Islands nationalist movement? Lavishly illustrated with photographs of peope, places and events. With Corrigenda mounted at rear.