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Paul Theroux

The Happy Isles of Oceania

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The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly).
In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines.
Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
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791 printed pages
Original publication
2006
Publication year
2006
Publishers
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mariner Books

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  • Lukasz Spigielhas quoted2 years ago
    ensely wooded with old-growth forest as well as coconut palms.

    It was a perfect area for paddling a kayak – perhaps the best in the Pacific.
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    • Oxana Yatsenkohas quoted4 years ago
      Maybe they sailed there,” Ataban said. “But we came from birds and sharks and snakes.”
      And, he explained, after death they turned back into sharks. It was a belief on Savo that sharks were the ghosts of dead people. For this reason sharks were often spoken to and given food.
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      • Oxana Yatsenkohas quoted4 years ago
        The great canoe route of migration, which was my itinerary, cut through the mountainous islands and coral atolls of Milne Bay and headed east to the Solomons
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