Tales of the Tikongs, Epeli Hau’ofa, 1988
- Tonga, #4
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read November 2015
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: Mack and the boys
Tales of the Tikongs: What’s the point of all this, anyway?
On the List
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands: Wikipedia FTW
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, vol. 1, John Martin and William Mariner, 1827
- Tonga, #1
- Free from Google Books
- Read November-December 2015
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: sticklers for detail
Fragile Paradise: a list
Fragile Paradise, Glynn Christian, 1982
- Pitcairn Islands, #1
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read: October-December 2015
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: People who read The Mutiny on the Bounty and thought, “That was pretty good, but it could have been drier. And maybe incorporated some family trees or something. Yeah, that would have been perfect.”
The Frigate Bird: Fear and loathing on Penrhyn Island
The Frigate Bird, Alistair Campbell, 1989
- Cook Islands, #7
- £0.01 from amazon.co.uk
- Read: October 2015 (and again in May 2016)
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Ukulele players with dark pasts
Dreams of a Rainbow: Maybe I’m missing something
Dreams of a Rainbow, Kauraka Kauraka, 1987
- Cook Islands, #6
- £6.50 from amazon.co.uk
- Read: September 2015
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: Bear Vasquez
An Island to Oneself (because one is an insufferable jerk)
An Island to Oneself, Tom Neale, 1966
- Cook Islands, #4
- Digital edition, free from privateislandsonline.com
- Read September 2015
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: People who don’t like people
The Frisbies of the South Seas: Life’s too short
The Frisbies of the South Seas, Johnny Frisbie, 1959
- Cook Islands, #3
- Borrowed from Fresno State Library, via SF Library
- Read: September 2015
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: Breathless admirers of Robert Dean Frisbie
Doctor to the Islands
Doctor to the Islands, Tom and Lydia Davis, 1954
- Cook Islands, #2
- Borrowed from San Francisco Library
- Read: September, 2015
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: Tropical epidemiologists
The Island of Desire: Slow-paced adventure and frustrated aspirations
The Island of Desire (The Story of a South Sea Trader), Robert Dean Frisbie, 1944
- Cook Islands, #1
- ebook, free from Project Gutenberg Australia
- Read: August 2015
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: people who fantasize about expatriating, not because they want to be a part of a different culture, but just to get away from their own, and have romantic and fairly unrealistic ideas about what that would actually be like
Vārua Tupu
Vārua Tupu: New Writings from French Polynesia, Frank Stewart, Kareva Mateata-Allain, and Alexander Dale Mawyer, eds., 2006
- French Polynesia, #4
- Paperback, £5.68 from alibris.com
- Read August 2015
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: casual coffee-table browsing
Around the World in 2000 Books 