“Around the Coral Sea” is a journal about the repatriation vessel S.S Moresby’s 1906 journey to the Solomon Islands as written by a special correspondent of the Queenslander newspaper. The newspaper published a series of articles about the trip and they provide a fascinating in depth view of life in the Solomons, looking at both colonial and indigenous peoples.The author illustrated the book with 212 black and white photographs and while some of the images are known, the vast majority have never been published.The journal will be available as an online publication with the texts published in their original format and with all the photographs and their captions. It can be found on www. kevinconru. com and will be released in six monthly installments.
