Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520–1920 - Robert W. Kirk - Google Books

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In the 400 years from Magellan’s entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were utterly transformed. Exotic diseases from Europe and America, particularly the worldwide influenza pandemic, were deadly for islanders.…