- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: FQ Books (6 July 2010)
- ASIN: B003VQRZDK
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,078,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mystic Isles of the South Seas. is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Frederick O'Brien is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Frederick O'Brien then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
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Fascinating Memoir Of A White Man's Adventures In Tahiti
12 Mar 2001
I admit that I purchased my original first edition of this book solely for the photographs of Tahiti and the nearby island of Moorea. The prose was of secondary interest to me.
However, upon reading the first chapter of this Irish-American adventurer's memoirs, I became hooked on the fascinating descriptions of the places and the people, whose life style was already, in 1921, being replaced by imported modernity.
The attitudes are, of course, dated and ethnocentric, but the author's love for the lands and the life of the South Seas becomes evident, as the many characters (both native and expatriate European) virtually come to life in this charming first-hand account of life in Tahiti.
This is a wonderful volume to dip into a little bit at a time, and some parts will read more easily to a 21st century arm-chair adventurer than others. But it left me with an intention to seek out the other two South Seas books by the same author, "White Shadows In The South Seas" and "Atolls In The Sun".
If you like travel memoirs of exotic, unspoiled places, you'll enjoy this book immensely, as I did.
Frank Dalton Embreeville, PA
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