The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

By
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
1992 • 528 pages

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22 books

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Full Circle
Where the Pavement Ends
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
Travels with Lizbeth
Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the PBS Series

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66 books

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Three Men In A Raft: An Improbable Journey Down The Amazon
Eiger Dreams
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Undaunted Courage
In A Sunburned Country
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
One market under God

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Dark Star Safari
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Hunting Pirate Heaven: In Search of the Lost Pirate Utopias of the Indian Ocean

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434 books

Faction

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A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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118 books

Reiselitteratur

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Ways of Going Home
Eye on the world
Slow Boats Home
In Search of Conrad
Sailing through China
The Imperial Way: By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
The Man Who Ate Everything
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
The Princes in the Tower
The Wars of the Roses
Washington: A Life
John Adams

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City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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Bonesetter's Daughter
The Vine Of Desire
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The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
27,000 Miles Through Australia
For Love and a Beetle: A Tale of Two Journeys
The World at Their Feet; the story of New Zealand mountaineers in the great ranges of the world
Camps and Climbs in Arctic Norway
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Beyond the Last Oasis: A Solo Walk in the Western Sahara

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Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
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Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
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Lucky You
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Prince of the Blood
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
The Fires of Heaven

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The Ra Expeditions
The Conquest of the North Atlantic
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The Marsh Arabs
Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land

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Jeff Wilson: Seasons of Gold
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There and Back
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Solomon Islands

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A History of the Pacific Islands
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Pacific Journeys
Adventuring in Coral Seas
Solomon Time: Adventures in the South Pacific
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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20 books

Samoa

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A History of the Pacific Islands
Transit of Venus
Freedom Like Sunlight
A Tale of Tahiti
Pacific Journeys
Something of Samoa
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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64 books

Polynesia

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Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific
A History of the Pacific Islands
The Tongan: A South Pacific Adventure
Minerva Reef
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
Love in the South Seas
Forgotten Islands of the South Seas

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50 books

Papua New Guinea

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Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate Vol 1
In Papua New Guinea
The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea
Nawok! The New Zealand Expedition to New Guinea's Highest Mountains
The Vanished People
Prowling Through Papua
The Barbarians

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17 books

Vanuatu

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A History of the Pacific Islands
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
Transit of Venus
Bird Man and the Lap Dancer
Pacific Journeys
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Tales from the Torrid Zone : Travels in the Deep Tropics

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24 books

Fiji

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A History of the Pacific Islands
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
Transit of Venus
Minerva Reef
Freedom Like Sunlight
The World Is All Islands
A Tale of Tahiti

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18 books

Tonga

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A History of the Pacific Islands
The Tongan: A South Pacific Adventure
Minerva Reef
Transit of Venus
Harpoon in my Hand
In Search of Moby Dick : Quest for the White Whale
Pacific Journeys

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33 books

Tahiti

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Moana: The Vastness of the Sea
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
South Seas Paradise
The World Is All Islands
The Bookseller at the End of the World
From Raft to Raft
A Tale of Tahiti

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Marquesas Islands

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Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Pacific Journeys
Hunt For The Southern Continent
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Tales from the Torrid Zone : Travels in the Deep Tropics
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific after Robert Louis Stevenson

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10 books

Cook Islands

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A History of the Pacific Islands
Pacific Journeys
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Tales from the Torrid Zone : Travels in the Deep Tropics
Venturesome Voyages
Captain Cook's Voyages: 1768-1779
Over the Reefs

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11 books

Easter Island

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Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Pacific Journeys
Hunt For The Southern Continent
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Island of Secrets: The Discovery & Exploration of Easter Island
Aku Aku: The Secret of Easter Island