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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Paul Theroux
In one of his most exotic and breathtaking journeys, the intrepid traveler Paul Theroux ventures to 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. This exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
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In one of his most exotic and breathtaking journeys, the intrepid traveler Paul Theroux ventures to 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. This exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
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- Title The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
- Author Paul Theroux
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
- Date 2006-12-01
- ISBN 9780618658985 / 061865898X
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Australian
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Oceania - Description and travel, Oceania - History, Local
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006028742
- Dewey Decimal Code 919.504
Media reviews
"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
"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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