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Title: My Samoan Chief (Pacific Classics,) by Fay G. Calkins ISBN: 0-87022-932-X Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Father in book
Comment: This was a nostalgic book. I was born in Pago Pago in l952 from East European immigrants escaping Soviet occupation. We now live in the Michigan. The reason this was nostalgic is because my father is mentioned in the book as the kind Latvian physician who helped deliver the authors baby. My father is still alive and just read the book with great interest. He says it is very accurate, entertaining, and a good look at Samoan life. I would love to be able to contact the author and tell her about the wonderful doc that I know that delivered her child.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting, funny & insightful in cross-cultural experience
Comment: My Samoan Chief tells the experiences of a young American woman who falls in love with a Samoan exchange student, marries him and returns to the Islands. Throughout the book she encounters Faa Samoa (The Samoan Way). Because she is palagi (pa-la-ngee - European) certain concessions are made. Some of the most funny stories for me, like trying to get shoes in the United States for her fiance and his sister - their feet were TOO wide, were funny to me because I'm married to a Samoan myself and had exactly the same experiences Fay Calkins had. If you plan to go overseas to the South Sea Islands, you gotta read this to get the flavour of meeting some of the friendliest and most hospitable people in the world
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Title: Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel ISBN: 1885030274 Publisher: Kaya Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Girl in the Moon Circle by Sia Figiel ISBN: 982020125X Publisher: Institute of Pacific Studies Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Islands of Samoa: Reference Map of Tutuila, Manu'A, 'Upolu, and Savai'I by James A. Bier ISBN: 0824813308 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Leaves of the Banyan Tree (Talanoa : Contemporary Pacific Literature) by Albert Wendt ISBN: 082481584X Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Samoa : Independent & American Samoa (3rd Ed) by Dorinda Talbot ISBN: 0864425554 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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