Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba
by
Katerina Martina Teaiwa
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans...