Polynesian Literature

The Island of Desire: Slow-paced adventure and frustrated aspirations

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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

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Les Immémoriaux

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Les Immémoriaux (A Lapse of Memory), Victor Segalen, 1907

  • French Polynesia, #1
  • Kindle, french edition, free from amazon.com
  • Read July 2015
  • Rating: 3/5
  • Opening Line: Cette nuit là — comme tant d’autres nuits si nombreuses qu’on n’y pouvait songer sans une confusion — Térii le Récitant marchait, à pas mesurés, tout au long des parvis inviolables.
  • Recommended for: scholars and cynics (and cynical scholars)

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