The Happy Isles Of Oceania

Paddling the Pacific

by Paul Theroux

On Sale: 12/08/2006

The Happy Isles Of Oceania

Paddling the Pacific

by Paul Theroux

On Sale: 12/08/2006

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About the Book

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.

Critical Praise

"Engaging and at times brilliant...he goes places where the rest of us might fear to paddle, often beaching his kayak on a small South Pacific island without the foggiest idea whether those awaiting him will be friendly, indifferent, or anxious to give him a good thwack...well worth reading." USA Today

"A superb blend of sharp-eyed observation and pungently expressed opinion. It's hardly paradise, this lovely part of the world, but Theroux makes it endlessly fascinating." Newsday

"Feisty, eloquent, and vast in scope...a multilayered odyssey." The San Francisco Chronicle

"Perceptive, terribly readable, and wickedly funny...[An] exhilarating book." --Book Review The Los Angeles Times —

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780618658985
  • ISBN 10: 061865898X
  • Imprint: Mariner Books
  • On Sale: 12/08/2006
  • Pages: 528
  • List Price:31.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : TRAVEL / Asia / Central
  • BISAC2 : TRAVEL / Asia / Southeast
  • BISAC3 : TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania
  • BISAC4 : TRAVEL / Asia / General

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