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The happy isles of Oceania : paddling the Pacific Cover Image Book Book

The happy isles of Oceania : paddling the Pacific Paul Theroux.

Theroux, Paul. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780618658985 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 061865898X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 528 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.

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General Note:
Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1992.
Subject: Theroux, Paul > Travel > Oceania.
Sea kayaking > Oceania.
Oceania > Description and travel.
Oceania > History, Local.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.

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PART ONE: MEGANESIA
New Zealand: The Land of the Long White Cloud
17(8)
New Zealand: Sloshing Through the South Island
25(11)
Waffling in White Australia
36(17)
Walkabout in Woop Woop
53(20)
North of the Never-Never
73(32)
PART TWO: MELANESIA
Buoyant in the Peaceful Trobriands
105(24)
Aground in the Troubled Trobriands
129(23)
The Solomons: Down and Dirty in Guadalcanal
152(12)
The Solomons: In the Egg Fields of Savo Island
164(22)
Vanuatu: Cannibals and Missionaries
186(15)
The Oddest Island in Vanuatu
201(17)
Fiji: The Divided Island of Viti Levu
218(21)
Fiji: Vanua Levu and the Islets of Bligh Water
239(26)
PART THREE: POLYNESIA
Tonga: The Royal Island of Tongatapu
265(28)
Tonga: Alone on the Desert Islands of Vava'u
293(27)
In the Backwaters of Western Samoa
320(26)
American Samoa: The Littered Lagoon
346(14)
Tahiti: The Windward Shore of the Island of Love
360(22)
A Voyage to the Marquesas
382(28)
The Cook Islands: In the Lagoon of Aitutaki
410(25)
Easter Island: Beyond the Surf Zone of Rapa Nui
435(21)
Easter Island: The Old Canoe Ramp at Tongariki
456(17)
PART FOUR: PARADISE
O'ahu: Open Espionage in Honolulu
473(21)
Kaua'i: Following the Dolphins on the Na Pali Coast
494(8)
Ni'ihau and Lana'i: Some Men Are Islands
502(11)
The Big Island: Paddling in the State of Grace
513


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