Description
In the aftermath of a personal upheaval, a solitary traveler sets out on an eighteen-month journey by collapsible kayak through fifty-one islands of the South Pacific, from New Zealand toward Hawaii and across Melanesia, Polynesia, and Australia. Along the way, he encounters remote communities, colonial legacies, street gangs, religious movements, environmental challenges, and the enduring power of island traditions. Part adventure narrative and part searching meditation on solitude, culture, and human resilience, the book offers an unsentimental portrait of a region on the threshold of rapid change. Observant, provocative, and vividly reported, it combines physical daring with the author’s characteristic curiosity and sharply personal travel writing.
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Ivy Books
Published Oct 27, 1992
528 pages
ISBN: 9780804111034
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First Published
1992
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux.