The Book of Puka-Puka

Name: The Book of Puka-Puka
Brand: Eland Publishing Ltd
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By (author): Anthony Weller Robert Dean Frisbie

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. See more

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Publication Date: 13 Jun 2019
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781780601410

About Anthony WellerRobert Dean Frisbie

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.