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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

Paul Theroux

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

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Title	:	The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Author	:	Paul Theroux
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	1993 by Ballantine (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Adventure

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"Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands." TIME Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this trip in and around the lands of the Pacific may be his boldest, most fascinating yet. From New Zealand's rain forests, to crocodile-infested New Guinea, over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors, daring weather and coastlines, he travels by Kayak wherever the winds take him--and what he discovers is the world to explore and try to understand.

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Original Title:	The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
ISBN:	0449908585 (ISBN13: 9780449908587)
Edition Language:	English

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Ah, Theroux! How much do I love Theroux? This is one of my favourite books by him, not only because of where he is traveling. I know, many readers don't like Theroux because he is so seemingly negative. I've heard people ask why he doesn't stay at home if he doesn't like what he sees, but see, I don't think he doesn't like where he is. But he is human, and he sees and describes the world he travels thruogh as a human.So if you expect great travel writing to sound like "and the we visited the

Travel writing isn't easy. I've read books that start off as engaging, but quickly lose the reader with dense facts, boring subtleties and the rigors of a timeline based storytelling ("this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened."). Yes, this book has the facts, the subtleties and the rigors, but they are never too dense or rigorous or boring. Paul Theroux is a gifted writer and in this book, he managed to keep me hooked all through its 528 pages. The fact that I traveled to

"It was in the Trobriands that I had realized that the Pacific was a universe, not a simple ocean. I especially recalled how one day sailing back to an island we were delayed, and night fell. There were stars everywhere, above us, and reflected in the sea along with the sparkle of phosphorescence streaming from the bow wave. When I poked an oar in the ocean and stirred it, the sea glittered with twinkling sea-life. We sped onward. There were no lights on shore. It was as though we were in an

This is the second travel book Ive read by Paul Theroux, the first having recounted his experiences during a walk around the periphery of Britain. This present work, published in 1992, describes his visit to New Zeeland and Australia and subsequent kayaking throughout the islands of the South Pacific. I enjoyed the work, moderately, but its length and the sameness of his experiences resulted in a tedium that increased as the chapters unfolded.Theroux characteristically views foreign lands and

This is the last book for my year of reading books about or set in or from Oceania. It is bittersweet indeed! This one sat on my shelf at home for several years, actually, and I almost didn't get to it again this year. I think it's Theroux. On one hand he goes on these amazing adventures, on the other hand he is cranky and judgmental and while some reviews claim this trait to be "wickedly funny" (Los Angeles Times) I have this feeling deep down that in another person's hands, the experiences

Paul Therouxs The Happy Isles of OceaniaIm a big fan of Paul Theroux, at least his travel literature (the only novel of his Ive read is Waldo, his debut, which, despite moments of hilarity, doesnt quite come off). In the travel genre, Ive read his The Great Railway Bazaar, The Kingdom by the Sea, The Pillars of Hercules, Dark Star Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. The Great Railway Bazaar is a masterpiece, the others merely very good to outstanding. Time

Damnit Paul Theroux, once again you made this book work by the skin of your teeth. Almost as if you can make your books work by sheer force of will and effort as opposed to any clear message. And somehow that works.So the gimmick or setting of this Paul Theroux travel book is a year and a half, yup, a year and a half spent traipsing through the Pacific islands with a collapsible kayak. Theroux is a master of creating this fantasy of perfect travel: exquisitely written little vignettes informed