Consuming ocean island : stories of people and phosphate from Banaba / Katerina Martina Teaiwa.

"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 Ind...

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Main Author: Teaiwa, Katerina Martina (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
Series:Tracking globalization.
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