Author: Theroux, Paul,
Title: The Happy Isles of Oceania: paddling the Pacific.
Description: NY, Putnam, (1992). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Theroux compares the vast Pacific to the universe. His travels begin in New Zealand where he walks the mountain trails of. Fiordland wilderness to Australia where he hikes the red ranges around Alice Springs, and camps among crocodiles & wild pigs on an Aboriginal reserve. Traveling with his collapsible kayak, Theroux lives among the Trobriand Islanders of New Guinea & discovers the truth about their sex lives, from there via the megapode egg-digges of the Solomon Islands & the cargo cults of Vanatu, he proceeds to Melanesian Fiji & Polynesian Tonga etc. DJ scratch along spine.

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