EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
1.
Spring Weekend & AGM 2008
BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
3. Andrew Stuart's
book
4.
New Hebrides Reminicenses
5.
Butterflies of Vanuatu
6.
Footsteps in Malekula
Members will be delighted to learn that the
long-awaited memoirs of our Co-Chairman, Andrew Stuart
CMG CPM, has finally been published by the Radcliffe Press.
Andrew was the last British Resident Commissioner of the New
Hebrides from 1978-80 and about half of the book is concerned with the events
of those years.
He was sent out to the Pacific by the then British Foreign
Secretary to help the leaders of the New Hebrides to get to
Independence, and the book is about those negotiations and the people
concerned, the agreements which led to independence and the revolts in
Santo and Tanna which threatened to derail the whole process.
It is therefore an account from the inside of this hinge period
in Vanuatu history. The
foreward to the book is by Sir Charles Guthrie, now the Chief of the
British Defence Staff but who was then the Military Advisor to the
British Resident Commissioner. The
frontispiece is a cartoon from Punch
about the Tanna tribe who thought to make a god of Prince
Phillip.
For details of availability please contact
nshackley@btinternet.com
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New Hebrides Reminicenses
A new publication comprising contributions from British, French,
Australian and other expatriates who lived in Vanuatu prior to
independence in 1980.
Confirmation was received from the Research School of Pacific
Studies in late 2002 that the University has now published the collection of
Condominium reminiscences, under the title of Tufala Gavmen.
Keith Woodward has received a limited number of copies of ‘Tufala Gavman’ for
sale to members at the discounted price of £20, plus £5 for postage (UK or
overseas surface mail) and packing.
Orders should be sent direct to Keith at Taradale, 17 Van Diemen’s Lane,
Lansdown, Bath BA1 5TW. Payment should be by cheque, payable to K. Woodward,
sent with the order. For further information on the background to this
publication
click here
For further information by email please contact
nshackley@btinternet.com
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A forthcoming
Field Guide to Vanuatu butterflies is offered to Friends of Vanuatu at a
special pre-publication price of £25.00 (retail price ca £35.00).
The author is a scientific associate at the Natural History Museum in
London, as well as being an experienced fieldworker and author in the
field of entomology. Of the 85 different butterflies now known from
Vanuatu, two species and 26 subspecies (31%) are endemic to the country;
additional taxa are endemic to the New Hebrides archipelago, which
includes the Santa Cruz islands (Solomon Islands) to the north of
Vanuatu.
Publication will be in the first half of 2008. In addition to informing
interested parties of the publication of this book, the purpose of this
notification in Nabanga is to offer any reader a guaranteed specially
discounted rate of not more than £25.00 per copy (+ postage) for firm
pre-publication orders.
For details of availability please contact
nshackley@btinternet.com
or to order direct please contact
jtstorment@googlemail.com
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‘Footsteps in
Malekula’
a memoir of Bernard Deacon, by Margaret Gardiner
This memoir of a brilliant ethnologist who died in
the wilds young and alone is also very moving account of personal
suffering (Graham Greene).
The book is based on the many and remarkable letters
that Bernard Deacon wrote to the author during 14
months in the New Hebrides, where he died of blackwater fever in 1927 at
the age of 24.
In the late 1980s Margaret Gardiner travelled to Vanuatu where, with the
assistance of Kirk Huffman, she was able to visit the grave of Bernard
Deacon, whom she last saw in 1926.
A number of copies of the book were donated to the British
Friends of Vanuatu by Margaret's son following her death, with the aim
of being used for fund raising. A small number of copies of this
poignant memoir remain and will be sent to any member on receipt of a
modest donation to cover postage and admin cost.
For details of availability please contact
nshackley@btinternet.com
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SPRING WEEKEND and
AGM
Friday 4th - Sunday 6th April, 2008
Raven Hall Country House Hotel & Golf Course
Robin Hood's Bay, Ravenscar, Yorkshire
The BFOV AGM
and Spring Weekend will be held in Ravenscar, East Yorkshire. (see
the July 2007 Newsletter, page 14, for fuller details).
It is hoped that ni-Vanuatu visitors
will be able to join us. The group will be staying at
The Raven
Hall Country House Hotel, (Tel 01723 870353; E-mail-
enquiries@ravenhall.co.uk).
This independently owned hotel is situated on the coast with spectacular
views over the Robin Hood's Bay and the Yorkshire moors.
The Raven Hall Hotel is offering a special price
of £65 per person per day(double rooms) for Dinner, Bed & Breakfast.
There will be no single occupancy supplement for the first five singles;
but thereafter it will be £15 per person per day. The price for the Saturday dinner will be
included in the half-board rate and will be served in a private room. The hotel will accept
additions to the 3-day core booking before or after at a wonderfully
generous rate of £45 per person for Dinner, Bed & Breakfast. Shorter
stays will only be considered at the same core reduced rates subject to availability. Members interested in taking part in the
Spring Weekend (or, for those living in the area, just the dinner) should contact
Norman Shackley as soon as possible
at nshackley@btinternet.com
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