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

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

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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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I would NEVER want to travel with (or spend any time with) Paul Theroux, but damn, can he conjure up a sense of place. Cranky, complaining and mean-spirited, but vastly entertaining.

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 book seems more pensive than Paul's usual fare, and that may be due to that fact that he set out on this trip right after he, and his wife, separated. So, he was downhearted, and at loose ends emotionally. I think it made him more in tune with his fellow man, looking outward at them from his inner place of sad solitude. He didn't write in a depressing manner, far from it. I felt it was a journey that was close to his heart, in many ways, and somehow he translated that deepness to the

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.

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

This is one of the worst books I've ever read. I'm at the last section of the book and I'm amazed that I've made it this far without giving up. I thought this book was going to be a great ode to the Pacific islands, but instead it was just one man's cynical and downtrodden tirade. Theroux managed to make sweeping generalizations about every group of people he came across, and you were lucky if you could read an entire page without him bitching about how lazy or dumb people were. I know from my

Paul Theroux takes us on a fascinating journey as he paddles (or flies or drives or walks) through Oceania. He takes us through New Zealand, Australia, the Trobiands, the Solomon Islands, Vanuata, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island, and the Hawaiin Islands. He gives history lessons and tells of his daily life and his interactions with the people he encounters.I can only say, I'm so glad I was not there. Reading his book is as close as I want to get to the jungles on these