Anyone who has written on Pacific history will, inevitably and perhaps even mandatorily, have found themselves buried in volumes of an eccentric and mostly colonial magazine out of Sydney. Pacific Island Monthly - or PIM as it was mostly called - reported on the region’s events between 1930 and 2000. Sometimes it missed big Pacific stories, perhaps deliberately, or because Sydney was not the best of places to cover the Pacific form.
Its content and its occasional missteps I will write on in another posting or two; here it's something rather more striking - its covers.
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