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Samoa
by Dorinda Talbot & Deanna Swaney
Lonely Planet
This 184-page book has 8 pages of information about Manu'a.\
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"The three small islands of the Manu'a group lie only 100km east of Tutu'ila, but in many ways, they are also 100 years away. As you arrive at Ofu, prepare for a jolt from both the time warp and the sensory overload you're certain to experience. Offering what is unquestionably the most stunning scenery in either Samoa..."
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The Pacific Islands
by Douglas L. Oliver
The University Press of Hawaii
The To'Aga Site: Three Millennia of Polynesia Occupation in the Manu'a Islands, American Samoa
by Patrick Vinton Kirch
The To'aga site is located on the southern side of the Ofu island.
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South Pacific Handbook
by David Stanley
Moon Travel Handbooks, 7th Edition
This book covers Manu'a in some detail. The majority of the books I've come across lack any mention of Manu'a, but only cover the larger islands of western Samoa and the island of Tutu'ila.
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Margaret Mead and Samoa
by Derek Freeman
Harvard University Press
One of my favorites.
Islands of Samoa: Reference Map of Tutuila, Manu'a, Upolu, and Savai'i
by James A. Bier
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South Pacific
Lonely Planet Publications
by Error Hunt & Tony Wheeler
April 2000
Another Lonely Planet book, packed with information about the South Pacific, containing 6 pages about Manu'a.
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Tonga-Samoa Handbook
by David Stanley
Moon Travel Handbook
Similar to his other book, it contains 3 pages about Manu'a.
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The Lapita Peoples
by Patrick Vinton Kirch
Blackwell Publishers
I find this book very informative. It chronicles the ongoing scientific work surrounding the Polynesians and attempts to give some answers to the question of their origin.
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Ancient Tonga & The Lost City of Mu'a
by David Hatcher Childress
Adventures Unlimited Press
This is a very interesting book that contains some comments about Manu'a in the Samoa islands. Most of this book is a composite of oral traditions and attempts by the author to fit archeological findings into a comprehensive picture of ancient Polynesia. I didn't know that there were these many ruins in Oceania that rivals those found in other parts of the world. This book also documents various other theories about the origin of the Polynesians. Despite my apprehension about authors writing scientific-sounding personal commentaries, I enjoy this book. While it fails to show the origin of the Polynesians (who can?), it's full of pictures and drawings of archaeological findings from around the Pacific that reveal the ancient glory of Polynesia and provides a good starting point for anyone else wanting to delve into a similar adventure.
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