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Article: The Tropical Islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- The Geographical Journal
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- September 1, 2002
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The Tropical Islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. By H. ARNBERGER and E. ARNBERGER
Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2001, 556 pp. Os. 990.00. ISBN 3 7001 2738 3
This is the first English edition of a book first published in German in 1993. It catalogues the observations and the insights of a husband-and-wife team, both distinguished geographers, who in journeys equivalent to 'almost thirty-three circumferences of the Earth' (p 5) visited as many tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans as possible. It is a huge book, crammed with numbers and maps and some excellent photographs, in both colour and black and white, and one yearns ...