{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = James Siers | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1936 | birth_place = Poland | death_date = 17 December 2013 (aged 76-77) | death_place = Fiji | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = Ethnography <br /> Adventure, Photography, Author | work_institutions = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = | signature = }} '''James Siers''' (1936 in Poland – 17 December 2013 in Fiji) was an author of numerous books on the Pacific Islands, a film maker and record producer and was well known for his work on television in Wellington, New Zealand.<ref>teaohou.natlib.govt.nz [http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao60TeA/c25.html No. 60 (September 1967)]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/obituaries/9624093/He-sailed-the-Pacific-in-an-outrigger-canoe |title=He sailed the Pacific in an outrigger canoe |last=MacDonald |first=Nikki |date=30 January 2014 |website=The Dominion Post}}</ref>
==Biography== Siers was born in Poland in 1936 and came to New Zealand as a child in 1944 as an eight-year-old war refugee. The first time he went to the Pacific was in 1962 or 1963 on a journalistic assignment. After a long career as an author and film maker he moved to Fiji and became a resort owner.<ref>Fiji fishing.com [http://www.fijifishing.com/news01.html Jim Siers and Anglers Paradise]</ref><ref>Fiji Islands: A Gift of the Sea (1997)</ref>
==Writings and observations== With a more than keen interest in the Polynesian islands, its people and its many cultures, James Siers via his books has attempted to show the similarities and differences with the people of the Pacific. In his book ''Polynesia in Colour'', he takes the reader on a journey through various island nations, from Samoa to Tahiti to New Caledonia.<ref>teaohou.natlib.govt.nz [http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao66TeA/c39.html No. 66 (March 1969)]</ref>
He had a lengthy association with the Hibiscus Records label as a producer and contributor of its liner notes.<ref>teaohou.natlib.govt.nz [http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao71TeA/full.html No. 71 (1973)]</ref> Some of his liner notes have appeared on Viking Records releases such as ''The Family of the Maori'', Viking VSP 18 .<ref>teaohou.natlib.govt.nz [http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao60TeA/c25.html No. 60 (September 1967)]</ref>
==Books released== *'''Samoa in Colour''', {{ISBN|0-589-00455-7}} (1970) *'''Polynesia in Colour''', {{ISBN|0-8048-0866-X}} (1970) *'''Hawaii''', {{ISBN|0-06-013769-X}} (1973) *'''Hawaii & Polynesia''', {{ISBN|0-385-08167-7}} (1973) *'''Tahiti in color: Couleurs de Tahiti''', {{ISBN|0-8048-1056-7}} (1973) *'''Tonga''', {{ISBN|0-908582-32-3}} (1978) *'''Taratai: A Pacific Adventure''', {{ISBN|0-908582-00-5}} (1978) *'''Taratai II: A Continuing Pacific Adventure''', {{ISBN|0-908582-28-5}} (1978) *'''New Zealand: Dramatic landscape''', {{ISBN|0-908582-40-4}} (1979) *'''Fiji In Colour''', ASIN: B0006E6X4W (1979) *'''Tahiti - Romance and Reality''', {{ISBN|0-312-59587-5}} (1982) *'''Papua New Guinea''', {{ISBN|0-312-59587-5}} (1984) *'''Fiji: Celebration''', {{ISBN|0-312-28930-8}} (1985) *''' New Zealand: Incredible Landscape''', {{ISBN|0-312-57170-4}} (1985) *{{cite book | title='''Above Auckland''' | publisher=Millwood Press | author=with Hamish Keith | year=1986 | location=Auckland | isbn=9780908582785 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klIgAAAACAAJ}} *'''Fiji Islands''' (Insight Pocket Guides) (Paperback), {{ISBN|0-395-73397-9}} (1995)
<ref>Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/James-Siers/e/B001HPV1WS James Bibliography]</ref>
==Films== *Viking of the Sunrise *Eye of the Octopus <ref>Fiji Islands: A Gift of the Sea (1997)</ref>
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