Years of the Pooh-Bah: A Cook Islands History BY Dick Scott. 1991, FIRST EDITION. SCARCE.

Years of the Pooh-Bah: A Cook Islands History BY Dick Scott.

Publisher: Hodder & Soughton, Auckland, 1991, FIRST EDITION. SCARCE.

Very good hardback with jacket. Book is in excellent near new condition with no inscriptions, minor edgewear. Jacket has a little chipping at edge and a tiny hole on spine. Title is almost completely faded away on spine. 320 pages, illustrated.

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 people, places and events.

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