BOOK LIST

A Norfolk Legacy – A people’s history is the foundation of their future	$27.25	Locally produced
This video conveys the culture and history of Norfolk Island through interviews with local islanders. Made in the early 1980s it is still relevant and an important oral history recording. Only available in VHS.
Norfolk Island Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area – Our Heritage A Documentary	$30.00	Look Film Productions
This exquisite 78 minute documentary chronicles the legacy of settlements in the KAVHA and should be viewed by anyone who desires a greater understanding of Norfolk Island and it’s settlements.
Bounty Chords – Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands	$39.95	Philip Hayward
Bounty Chords focuses on the central role of song and dance in forging local heritage and identity. It maps a rich and complex cultural history beginning with the Bounty Mutiny in 1789 following both communities through to the present.
Norfolk Island…the birds	$34.90	Margaret Christian
This book is the only complete reference guide to Norfolk’s birds – extinct, endemic, landbirds, resident species, seabirds and non-breeding visitors and vagrants.
Over the Horizon – the Polynesian Settlement on Norfolk Island	$8.70	Helen Sampson
The only guide that covers the pre- European Polynesian settlement of Norfolk Island. Polynesian voyaging in the Pacific and evidence of settlement through archaeology are included.
1856-2006 Sesquicentenary Celebration Norfolk Island	$18.50	J. Williams and S.L. Bataille
This booklet has been specially produced for the 150 year celebration of the arrival on the 8th June 1856 of the Pitcairn Islanders on Norfolk Island. Historical family photographs have been included to share the story of the Norfolk Islanders and their homeland.
Our People – Awas Salan A photographic essay on Norfolk Island’s Anniversary Day	$27.25	Kim Partridge
This beautiful book chronicles in photographs over 20 years of ‘Bounty Day’ celebrations on the 8th June on Norfolk Island. Local language and recipes are included. All profits go to the Community Arts Society of Norfolk Island.
Kingston Ceramics ****SALE****	$7.00	N.Erskine
A dictionary of Ceramic Wares in the Norfolk Island Museum. The historic buildings at Kingston are a prominent reminder of the rich cultural heritage of this site. Invisible beneath the ground is an even larger resource of archaeological materials spanning the entire history of settlement at Norfolk Island. This is an easy reference to ceramics found at Kingston and will be of interest to anyone wishing to identify nineteenth century ceramics.
A Street Guide - Quality Row, Kingston Norfolk Island	$10.90	J.Wesley
This guide provides an overview to life in the buildings and houses along historic Quality Row, from 1788 to the arrival of the Pitcairn Descendants in 1856.
The Pitcairners	$29.95	R.Nicolson
The Bounty Mutineers were a lost tribe in the South Pacific who finally found a safe haven in Pitcairn Island. From the fate of the mutineers to life on the island 200 years later, Nicholson reveals a fascinating story.
The First Fleet 1788 Poster	$5.45	N.I. Museum
This easy to read poster provides the names of the ships of the First Fleet together with the names of crew, convicts and officials on board. A must for any descendant of the First Fleet.
Ship's Company, HMS Bounty Poster	$3.30	N.I. Museum
This poster provides the names and fates of all the crew on baord the HMS Bounty at the time of the Mutiny in 1790, from hanging, to a career in the Royal Navy, to being murdered and drowned. A concise and fascinating summary of the lives and deaths of the 46 men aboard this fateful ship.
Hell & Paradise	$43.55	P.Clarke
This beautifully produced book is the perfect coffee table book, packed with illustrations and photographs. It explores the story of Norfolk Island from its discovery by Captain Cook, its life as the world's most abominable penal colony, to settlement by the descendants of the Bounty Mutineers.
Thomas Samuel Stuart's Journal, Norfolk Island 1855	$19.60	Edited by L.Chambers & M.Hoare
This journal provides a detailed eight month record of day to day life of the 3 Officials and 9 convicts left on the island in 1855 as caretakers to await the arrival of the Pitcairn Islanders. It brings to life just what went on during the dying days of Norfolk Island's 2nd Penal Settlement, a period previously almost unknown.
Elizabeth Robertson's Diary, Norfolk Island 1845	$15.50	Edited by M.Hoare
Women living on Norfolk Island during the two convict periods remain shadowy figures, however this book of diary extracts reveals daily life as experienced by Elizabeth Robertson, the daughter of the Superintendant of Agriculture at Longridge. A fascinating account.
The Commandants: The Tyrants Who Ruled Norfolk Island	$13.00	M.G.Britts
M.G.Britts graphically depicts the impressions made by the succession of brutal Commandants who made the name of Norfolk Island notorious around the world.
Colonial Era Cemetery of Norfolk Island	$15.80	R.Nixon Dalkin
Life and death in one of the harshest penal colonies ever administered by Britain is recorded on the tombstones of the early cemetery of Norfolk Island. The tombstone inscriptions and the stories of death from violence, disease and the hangman's rope, are movingly recorded by a former Administrator of Norfolk Island.