The Book of Puka-Puka
A Lone Trader in the South Pacific
Published on 13. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-78060-141-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
369 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78060-141-0 (9781780601410)
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06/2019
Eland Publishing
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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.