1st Edition

Married to Melanesia

By Muriel Jones Copyright 1974
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

‘We were married after three years at opposite ends of the world…. We then, too rapidly for comfort, made off in a snowstorm for the South Seas…. All this we imprudently did in our late forties.’ Thus Muriel Jones introduces her account, originally published in 1974, of how she came to start her married life in the Solomon Islands, ‘whose impact was traumatic, perhaps just because we were not in... Read more

1. South Seas Impact  2. Siota  3. Mother, Father and Aunt Jane  4. David  5. Moving  6. New Home  7. Students  8. Friends and Neighbours  9. Religion  10. Beasts  11. Botanical  12. ‘In Journeyings Oft …’  13. Honiara  14. Change.

Biography

Muriel Jones