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y separately published work icon Pieces of Heaven: in the South Seas single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Pieces of Heaven: in the South Seas
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Notes

  • Dedication: In loving memory SDS the two Helens, Alex, Ida, and Harry Maude who sent me to the Islands

  • Epigraph: these ... pieces of heaven, / the South Seas. Rupert Brooke, Letter from Fiji

    ... mysterious, divine Pacific ... / the tide-beating heart of earth - Herman Melville, Moby Dick

    I should like to hang from the consular flagstaff one politician, one economist and one female traveller who writes books ... to preserve these islands from notice. Henry Adams, Letter from Samoa

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Works about this Work

Writer Returns to Paradise Nancy Potter , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 11 no. 1 1997; (p. 62-63)
— Review of Pieces of Heaven: in the South Seas Nancy Phelan , 1996 single work autobiography
The Leopard is Back to Woo a New Generation Virginia Cook , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 September 1996; (p. 20)
— Review of Pieces of Heaven: in the South Seas Nancy Phelan , 1996 single work autobiography
Women and Travel Susan Wyndham , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Spring vol. 6 no. 3 1996; (p. 102-106)
— Review of Pieces of Heaven: in the South Seas Nancy Phelan , 1996 single work autobiography ; Duty Free : Australian Women Abroad Ros Pesman , 1996 single work criticism biography
The Leopard is Back to Woo a New Generation Virginia Cook , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 September 1996; (p. 20)
— Review of Pieces of Heaven: in the South Seas Nancy Phelan , 1996 single work autobiography
Women and Travel Susan Wyndham , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Spring vol. 6 no. 3 1996; (p. 102-106)
— Review of Pieces of Heaven: in the South Seas Nancy Phelan , 1996 single work autobiography ; Duty Free : Australian Women Abroad Ros Pesman , 1996 single work criticism biography
Writer Returns to Paradise Nancy Potter , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 11 no. 1 1997; (p. 62-63)
— Review of Pieces of Heaven: in the South Seas Nancy Phelan , 1996 single work autobiography
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Subjects:
  • c
    Samoa,
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    South Pacific, Pacific Region,
  • 1950s
  • 1990s
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