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The Book of Puka-Puka

Robert Dean Frisbie Anthony Weller

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English
Eland Publishing Ltd
13 June 2019
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. 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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Imprint:   Eland Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Weight:   300g
ISBN:   9781780601410
ISBN 10:   1780601417
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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