Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba

by Katerina Martina Teaiwa

Book Overview

Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji. Katerina Martina Teaiwa tells the story of this human and ecological calamity by weaving together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253014522
• ISBN13: 9780253014528
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher