Langdon, Robert Adrian
LANGDON, Robert Adrian
LANGDON, Robert Adrian. Australian, b. 1924. Genres: Language/ Linguistics, Travel/Exploration, History, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Visiting Fellow, Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University, Canberra, 1986- (Executive Officer, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, 1968-86). Assistant Ed., Pacific Islands Monthly mag., Sydney, N.S.W., 1964-68. Publications: Tahiti: Island of Love, 1959, 5th ed. 1979; The Lost Caravel, 1975; (with Darrell Tryon) The Language of Easter Island: Its Development and Eastern Polynesian Relationships, 1983; The Lost Caravel Re-explored, 1988; Every Goose a Swan: An Australian Autobiography, 1995. Died 2003.
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