Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba by Katerina Martina Teaiwa

Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba

Katerina Martina Teaiwa

264 pages paperback 2014

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 la...

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