Provides good coverage of upscale accommodations and food in Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, the Samoas, and Tonga only.

The 8th edition of the original guide to Polynesia and Melanesia, with the most comprehensive travel listings and analysis.

A condensed version of Lonely Planet's country guides to Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, by Geert Cole.

An excellent map from the famous German publisher Nelles Verlag including detail maps of all the major South Pacific islands.

Simply the best map of the Pacific islands that money can buy with an impressive place name index. Highly recommended.

A handy introduction to speaking Fijian, Maori, Hawaiian, Niuean, Rapanui, Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, and other languages.

Mike Hollywood's resort and restaurant reviews are worth reading. This one works best in combination with another guide.

A Lonely Planet guide to Rarotonga and the Cook Islands with all the general tourist information you might need.

Moon's 1,093-page guidebook to the South Pacific has 63 pages on the Cook Islands plus eight detailed maps.

Though most of this 504-page book is devoted to mainland Chile, there is a small section on Easter Island.

Onetime Lonely Planet author Wayne Bernhardson prepared this guide to Chile and Easter Island, published in 2007.

Probably the best travel guide to Easter Island currently available, by Rapanuiphile Georgia Lee.

This Lonely Planet guide provides a good introduction to scuba diving around Fiji if you don't require critical reviews of dive facilities.

Lonely Planet's Fiji guide is all you need to tour Fiji's main resorts. For more remote locations you're better off with Moon.

The original guide to Fiji, this 8th edition provides more maps, travel information, and background than is available elsewhere.

Photographer Kurt Amsler's three-dimensional color maps of 27 of French Polynesia's top dive sites are excellent.

Bill Goodwin provides good information and personal recommendations of upscale facilities around French Polynesia.

Rob Kay's travel guide is strong on description though poor on maps and photos while lacking exact price information.

A very thorough guide to the whole of French Polynesia originally researched by Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet.

This is the newest and most complete guide to Tahiti and French Polynesia.

Though photos and maps are missing, Jan Prince shares insider knowledge gathered during three decades in the islands.

If the coverage of France's Melanesian colony has any shortcoming it's perhaps the uncritical nature of its contents.

If New Caledonia is only part of a larger Pacific trip, you'll find Moon's coverage of the territory is more than adequate.

A French-language guide to New Caledonia from Petit Futé, available only in France.

Lonely Planet's guide covers both independent Samoa and neighboring American Samoa in adequate detail.

James A. Bier's indexed map of the two Samoa's is the best of its kind. Published by the University of Hawaii Press.

A comprehensive map of Samoa from Hema Maps, including an Apia town map, tourist features, and road distances.

Lonely Planet has combined their Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands guides in this new edition.

Moon's 78 pages on the Solomon Islands say more about the country than most other regional guides and offers all you really need.

This book contains an abbreviated version of their Solomon Islands guide and is quite adequate for a brief visit to the country.

Produced by the staff of the American yacht charter company The Moorings, this slim volume covers the Vava'u Group only.

This edition Lonely Planet has combined Tonga and Samoa in one volume. With Tonga-Samoa Handbook out of print, it's your only choice.

A folded color map of the islands from International Travel Maps, with detail maps of Neiafu and Nukualofa.

This 1995 book was produced before Pisces Books was taken over by Lonely Planet. Big on photos, small on data.

Once the best of Lonely Planet's South Pacific series, this edition has been sharply abridged and combined with New Caledonia.

Moon provides quite adequate information if Vanuatu is only part of a larger trip and you don't wish to carry another guide.

This Aqua Quest Diving guide covers Guam, the Marianas, Yap, Palau, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the Marshalls.

David Leonard's dive guide to Guam, the Northern Marianas, Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the Marshall Islands.

Longtime Guam residents David Lotz and son Jonathan know Guam better than most and provide good information on hiking.

Palau's Rock Islands are world renowned and this guide by Tim Rock and Francis Toribiong will point you in the right direction.

Lonely Planet's Micronesia guide is more than adequate for an island hopping journey between Hawaii and Palau, published in 2000.

This 6th edition of the original guide to Micronesia also includes countries like Nauru and Kiribati, published in 2003.