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The Book of Puka-Puka
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Puka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It frames a lagoon so clear that one can see the coral forests some ten fathoms below. It is the most remote, and probably the most beautiful, of all the Cook Islands.
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Puka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It frames a lagoon so clear that one can see the coral forests some ten fathoms below. It is the most remote, and probably the most beautiful, of all the Cook Islands.
Robert Dean Frisbie was born in Ohio (1896) but his health was crippled after fighting in the First World War. In 1920, he sailed for the Southern Pacific with a library of books, a desire to live, and an ambition to write. In 1924, he travelled out to Puka-Puka and 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.
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.
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ISBN: 9781780601410
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 June 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Eland Publishing Ltd
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 250g
Pages: 224
About the Author
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.
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