Captain James Cook: Idylls of the South Pacific   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPAC180)		  
Blue Latitudes, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before  •  Tony Horwitz
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES
A vivid tale of modern adventures, history and fun in the wake of Captain Cook by the author of Confederates in the Attic. Horwitz paints a broad picture of Cook and his time, capturing the places and personalities Cook encountered in his daring voyages around the world. Since he doesn't like the cold, the author (who sailed on a replica of the Endeavour as a crewman) skipped the Antarctic. (EXP31, $17.00)		   Blue Latitudes, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands  •  John Chambers
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES
A concise, generous overview of the region, organized chronologically, and including line drawings and maps. While a great deal of the book focuses on New Zealand, there is also ample coverage of the South Pacific. (NZL60, $16.95)		   A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands
Pacific Journeys  •  Peter Hendrie
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 224 PAGES
A striking portfolio of 330 color photographs of the island countries of Melanesia and Polynesia, from Papua New Guinea across to Easter Island, chosen from the Australian photographer Peter Hendrie's 30 trips in the region over the last 20 years. (PAC183, $45.00)		   Pacific Journeys
The Happy Isles of Oceania  •  Paul Theroux
EXPLORATION •  2006 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES • FAVORITE
Here's Theroux at his wickedly funny and open-minded best. The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas. (PAC03, $15.95)		   The Happy Isles of Oceania
The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean  •  Paddy Ryan
NATURAL HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 184 PAGES
An illustrated overview of coral reefs, coral-reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, this compact book is an excellent resource for anyone thinking of exploring the underwater world. Beginners will appreciate the chapters on learning to snorkel, reef etiquette, photography hints and first aid. With 200 color photographs. (DIV18, $21.99)		   The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean



Also Recommended

South Pacific Islands Map  •  Nelles    •  Covering the Pacific from Pitcairn to Papua New Guinea at a scale of 13:000,000. With 30 individual island maps, including Easter Island, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Marquesas, French Polynesia, Vanuatu and Fiji. (PAC164, $13.95)
 		  
Easter Island, the Essential Guide  •  Kay Sanger   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Sanger covers the history, archaeology, people and practicalities in this authoritative guide, published by the Easter Island Foundation. (EIL17, $20.00)
 		  
Moon Handbook South Pacific  •  David Stanley   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Stanley covers the South Pacific from French Polynesia to Tonga, Fiji and Easter Island in detail in this comprehensive overiew. (PAC100, $24.95)
 		  
Island at the End of the World  •  Steven Roger Fischer   • HISTORY  •  Fischer's cultural and political history takes in the full sweep of Easter Island from prehistory through civil rights protests of the 1960s. (EIL18, $24.95)
 		  
Serpent in Paradise  •  Dea Birkett   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • COMING IN  •  Intrigued by legends and romance, journalist Dea Birkett gets herself to three-square-mile Pitcairn Island for a sojourn among the descendents of Captain Bligh's mutinous crew. (PAC28, $17.00)
 		  
Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft  •  Thor Heyerdahl  •  F. H. Lyon   • EXPLORATION  •  The hugely popular account of a daring 1947 voyage sailing along the Humboldt and Equatorial currents from Peru to Tahiti. Apart from the sheer adventure, Heyerdahl wanted to show the world that Polynesians could have settled the region. With photographs. (PAC10, $5.99)
 		  
Oceanic Art  •  Nicholas Thomas   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A concise, cogent and colorful overview of the gorgeous art of the Pacific Islands. Organized thematically with 182 illustrations, 26 in color. (PAC06, $19.95)
 		  
On the Road of the Winds  •  Patrick Vinton Kirch   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  An excellent scholarly review of the prehistory and archaeology of Pacific civilizations before European contact. (PAC101, $39.95)
 		  
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia  •  Adrienne L. Kaeppler   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Kaeppler's covers the range of textiles, bark cloth, body ornament carving and ornament throughout the Pacific in this lively, authoritative survey. With 100 illustrations, most in full color. (PAC214, $27.95)
 		  
Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific  •  R. K. Howe   • EXPLORATION  •  This richly illustrated collection of scholarly articles on Pacific voyaging, past and present, features 400 color and black-and-white photographs, maps and diagrams, along with contributions by Ben Finney, Sam Low, Anne Salmond and other experts. (PAC177, $61.00)
 		  
We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific  •  David Lewis   • EXPLORATION  •  This engaging classic examines how Stone Age Polynesians may have navigated the Pacific. The scholarly volume will appeal to seafarers and modern Pacific travelers. (PAC35, $31.99)
 		  
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All  •  Christina Thompson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this endearing, offbeat memoir, anthropologist Thompson effortlessly alternates tales of mostly disastrous early encounters with the Maori and the story of the love of her life, Seven, the Maori she married. (NZL96, $16.00)
 		  
Gauguin, The Quest for Paradise  •  Francoise Colchin   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Concise and beautifully illustrated, this overview of the artist, his work and life features a significant section on his time in Tahiti. The book includes many paintings as well as excerpts from his journals and other writings. (PAC27, $12.95)
 		  
Getting Stoned with Savages, A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu  •  J. Maarten Troost   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Troost (Sex Lives of Cannibals) follows up his hilarious account of life in Kiribati with an equally amusing romp in Fiji and Vanuatu. Coaxed back to the islands by promises of a simpler life, Troost faces dangerous weather, potent drugs, tribal chiefs and fatherhood with his wit intact. (PAC168, $13.99)
 		  
In a Sunburned Country  •  Bill Bryson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  The intrepid, ever-resourceful Bryson revels in Australia's eccentric characters, dangerous flora and fauna, and other oddities in this wildly funny, effortlessly informative travelogue. (AUS83, $15.99)
 		  
In the South Seas  •  Robert Louis Stevenson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A set of Stevenson's personal sketches describing a year of travels in the Marquesas, Paumotus and the Gilberts, first written as magazine articles and then reworked to incorporate detail on local peoples and history, published posthumously. (PAC147, $16.00)
 		  
The Bounty, The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty  •  Caroline Alexander   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Alexander's follow-up to her phenomenally successful The Endurance is a lively account of the familiar misadventures of William Bligh, including a fresh look at the fate of the mutineers back in England and at Pitcairn. This is a rousing tale of class barriers, the British courts and remarkable seamanship. (PAC134, $17.00)
 		  
The Fatal Voyage, Captain Cook's Last Great Journey  •  Peter Aughton   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Aughton's enthralling tale of Cook's search for the elusive Pacific entrance to the Northwest Passage draws on letters, log records and the diaries of those involved in the voyage. Sailing from England in July 1776, he discovered the Hawaiian archipelago before mapping and charting the formidable northwest coast of America, from Vancouver Island to the frozen northern coastline of Alaska. He sailed through the Bering Strait and reached the entrance to the North West Passage, only to be defeated by a sheer wall of ice. Retreating back to Hawaii, he was killed at Kealakekua Bay. (EXP62, $17.95)
 		  
The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific  •  J. Maarten Troost   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Dragged unwittingly with his wife to Kiribati, the author settled down to explore the island and its eccentric inhabitants in this hilarious, disturbing first book. It's a fascinating, decidedly unromantic glimpse into island life. (PAC146, $14.00)
 		  
The Shark God, Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific  •  Charles Montgomery   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A wry account of travels in the footsteps of the author's missionary great-grandfather in the Solomon Islands, revealing the legacy of Christianity and traditional Melanesian religion. (PAC182, $17.00)
 		  
30 Days in the South Pacific, True Stories of Escape to Paradise  •  James O'Reilly  •  Sean O'Reilly  •  Larry Habegger   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This anthology, which presents its stories as a month-long journey, features 30 tales of visitors and vagabonds taken in by the South Pacific. (PAC159, $14.95)
 		  
Mutiny on the Bounty  •  James Norman Hall  •  Charles Nordhoff   • LITERATURE  •  The well-known (and loved) fictional account of the voyage of the HMS Bounty, greatly enjoyable despite its probable lack of accuracy regarding Bligh's personality. (PAC11, $15.99)
 		  
South Sea Tales  •  Jack London   • LITERATURE  •  London draws on his voyages aboard the Snark in 1907-09 though Polynesia and the Solomons for these eight tales, vividly evoking the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific. (PAC85, $13.00)
 		  
South Sea Tales  •  Robert Louis Stevenson   • LITERATURE  •  These entertaining tales, set among both real and mythical islands, show Stevenson's keen observations of island life. (PAC15, $14.95)
 		  
Tales of the South Pacific  •  James A. Michener   • LITERATURE  •  The first of the big Michener novels, set in World War II Polynesia. It's great fun, and the basis for the Rogers & Hammerstein musical "South Pacific." (PAC18, $7.99)
 		  
The Explorers  •  Tim F. Flannery   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Through 67 personal accounts selected and introduced by Tim Flannery, this collection reveals the human experience of exploring and settling Australia. (AUS89, $14.00)
 		  
The Nutmeg of Consolation  •  Patrick O'Brian   • LITERATURE  •  This 14th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series finds Captain Aubrey and his crew shipwrecked and making their way to the penal colony at Botany Bay, the notorious first European settlement in Australia. (AUS17, $15.95)
 		  
New Zealand, A Natural History  •  Tui De Roy  •  Mark Jones   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN  •  Having relocated many years ago to the beaches of Golden Bay on the North Island, Tui and Mark present the wildlife, habitats and splendor of their homeland in this photographic celebration. (NZL76, $40.00)
 		  
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific  •  H. Douglas Pratt   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This landmark field guide with chapters on the islands and habitats features superb color plates by Pratt and a checklist of birds. (HWI32, $45.00)
 		  
Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific, New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands  •  John Randall   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This extraordinary handbook by leading authority John Randall features 2,018 color illustrations of South Pacific fishes. (PAC161, $77.00)
 		  
Reef Fish Identification, Tropical Pacific  •  Paul Humann  •  Ned Deloach  •  Gerald Allen  •  Roger Steene   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This comprehensive guide to Indo-Pacific reef fishes features 2,500 color photographs. (DIV49, $48.00)
 		  
 
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