Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dad v
3. Contents xiii
4. Foreword xv
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xix
6. Serendipity: An Introduction 1
7. PART I THE AMERICAN CONNECTION
8. CHAPTER 1 Papaya Archives Tin Roofs and Marble Arches 23
9. CHAPTER 2 Doing What I Could 43
10. CHAPTER 3 Voyaging through History 66
11. CHAPTER 4 The Long Way Home Voyages of Discovery through Pacific History 79
12. PART II THE AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION
13. CHAPTER 5 Capable and Enthusiastic 97
14. CHAPTER 6 Crossing Boundaries and History 122
15. CHAPTER 7 Long Winding Road from Tabia 141
16. CHAPTER 8 Pacific Historian Manqué 163
17. CHAPTER 9 Pacific Pentimento: The Journey of a Pakeha Scholar 183
18. CHAPTER 10 Why Not Pacific History? Chance and the Making of an Ethnohistorian 198
19. PART III THE USP CONNECTION
20. CHAPTER 11 A Long and Winding Road 217
21. CHAPTER 12 Negotiating and Reconciling Old and New Ancestry 236
22. CHAPTER 13 Serendipity or Working with Circumstances? 258
23. CHAPTER 14 Of Choice, Chance, and Contingency 278
24. Contributors 297
25. Index 301