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Tag: Pacific Ocean

Australasia / Paul Theroux / Travel Writing

The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paul Theroux

This is one of Theroux’s odder travel books. The spectre of separation from his wife haunts the narrative as the veteran travel writer sets off to paddle the Pacific. Not, mercifully, in a Thor Heyerdahl non-stop-adventure kind of a way, but in a more relaxed pottering-around-the-islands sort of way. It is a difficult book to… Read More

Posted 19 years ago July 12, 2004
By Jonathan Turton
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