The French Speaking Pacific
(CHRISTIAN JOST)
The papers in The French-Speaking Pacific range
from straight geology ? an argument for endo-upwelling in atolls as a mechanism
for nutrient supply to corals and for phosphate deposition ? to literary
criticism ? an essay on Tahiti and the geography of paradisiac spaces. Most,
however, are split between physical and human geography, combining geology,
ecology, meteorology, and environmental studies or economics, politics, and
history. They cover independent Vanuatu
as well as the French Territories of New Caledonia,
French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna.
While some of the details were a little too specialized for me, I found
almost all of the papers accessible and interesting. Minor quibbles are that
the region covered doesn''t form a natural unit for physical geography and that
there is no introduction ? a brief history of the French presence in the
Pacific would help to set the papers in context.
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