The Happy Isles of Oceania

Fülszöveg

"Possibly his best travel bodk an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip
that took him to 51 Pacific Islands!' ---Time--
"What a trip it is. New Zealand's rain forests, crocodile-infested, estuaries in New
Guinea, volcanic islands, coral atolls, rubbish-strewn harbors, wild, perilous coastlines, sharky waters, windswept islands numilibus vidth spirits. He travels light but brings penetrating intelligence and tough erudition to every place he touches, debunking myths, justifying prejudices, and getting to the quiddities of other Pacific
voyagers By the epiphany^t the end of the book, Theroux, a prickly bear at best, has never sounded so happy, which makes this, with the best of travel writing, an interior as well as a surface odyssey." -¦¦ . ^ ji^" -The Washington Post Book World-—-
"Feisty, eloquent and vast in scope A multilayered odyssey—sights, sounds, speculations and regrets all blending into a glorious tangle of dark and
radiant notes Haunting!' —-San... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Possibly his best travel bodk an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip
that took him to 51 Pacific Islands!' ---Time--
"What a trip it is. New Zealand's rain forests, crocodile-infested, estuaries in New
Guinea, volcanic islands, coral atolls, rubbish-strewn harbors, wild, perilous coastlines, sharky waters, windswept islands numilibus vidth spirits. He travels light but brings penetrating intelligence and tough erudition to every place he touches, debunking myths, justifying prejudices, and getting to the quiddities of other Pacific
voyagers By the epiphany^t the end of the book, Theroux, a prickly bear at best, has never sounded so happy, which makes this, with the best of travel writing, an interior as well as a surface odyssey." -¦¦ . ^ ji^" -The Washington Post Book World-—-
"Feisty, eloquent and vast in scope A multilayered odyssey—sights, sounds, speculations and regrets all blending into a glorious tangle of dark and
radiant notes Haunting!' —-San Francisco Chronicle--
"An engaging and at times brilliant travel writer He goes places where the rest of us might fear to paddle, often beaching his kayak on a small South Pacific island without the foggiest idea whether those awaiting him wiU be fiiendly, indifferent or anxious to give him a good thwack It is [the] glimpses of paradise—and Theroux's enthusiastic documentation of all that paradise has lost—that make The Happy Isles of Oceania we][wonh reading'.' -—-USA Today ----
"Wonderful The Happy Isles is Theroux at the top of his probing, insightiiil and entertaining game. What makes Theroux so good is what always separates the fine writers from the pack: his ability to look at the familiar in a fresh, original way—and make us richer for it!' ---Philadelphia Inquirer--- Vissza