Book of Puka-Puka

Name: Book of Puka-Puka
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Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Robert Dean Frisbie, Anthony Weller, Robert Dean Frisbie

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The Book of Puka-Puka is not about travel, it is about staying still. It is about living as a conspicuous stranger and slowly allowing yourself to become absorbed into the ways of an ancient, indigenous community. This book was not composed by a colonial administrator, a missionary or an anthropologist, but by a hedonistic South Sea trader. This young American fishes, picnics, swims, sleeps and falls in love but fortunately he also listens out for good stories.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-13
Mått143 x 213 x 17 mm
Vikt328 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagEland Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781780601410

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Robert Dean Frisbie was born in Ohio (1896) but his health was crippled after fighting in the First World War and a doctor informed him that another North American winter would be his last. In 1920, he sailed for the Southern Pacific with a library of books, a desire to live and an ambition to write. His first job, aged 24, was managing a plantation in Tahiti from where he began to explore the scattered islands. In 1924 he travelled out to Puka Puka, where he ran a store for A.B. Macdonald. Over the next four years he wrote a series of twenty nine articles for Atlantic Monthly, which were later gathered together to create The Book of Puka-Puka.