Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Currency, Measurement, and Place-Names Abbreviations Preface: Was the Environment a Stage or an Actor? Prologue: The Great Ocean: How Others Tried to Ride Its Waves Part I: Encountering Pacific Environments CHAPTER 1: Imagining Landscapes CHAPTER 2: Peopling the Southern Pacific CHAPTER 3: Diseased Environments Part II: Using Indigenous Resources CHAPTER 4: Local Resources CHAPTER 5: Taking Stock CHAPTER 6: Resources for the Metropole CHAPTER 7: The Human Resource Part III: Exiting Environment, Leaving Residues CHAPTER 8: Paying for the Damages CHAPTER 9: Close Out CHAPTER 10: Leavings on Landscape CHAPTER 11: Legacies and Visions Part IV: Embodying War's Environment CHAPTER 12: Remembering Place CHAPTER 13: Places of Memory, Sites of Forgetting Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author