The Happy Isles of Oceania, Part 2

Part Two Of Two Parts Imagine kayaking the Pacific, exploring surfy coasts and blue lagoons, beaching your canoe in paradise. Paul Theroux did just that. . .New Zealand and Australia, New Guinea, the Solomons, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and Hawaii. Theroux enters a Gauguin painting, sails in the wake of Captain Cook and recalls the tales of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson. Alone in his kayak, approaching deserted shores, he glides through time, discovering a world of islands and their remarkable people. “Full of disarming observations, high adventure and memorable characters rendered with keen irony.” (Publishers Weekly)