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Title: Book of Puka Puka by Robert Dean Frisbie, Robert D. Frisbie ISBN: 0-935180-27-3 Publisher: Mutual Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1987 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Poetic Tragedy
Comment: The book of Puka Puka is a great glimse of polenesain life. At the time the book was written(1929) the pacific was still viewed as a mysterious paridise. I find the life of Robert dean Frisbie much more interesting. As an American living in the cook islands,he did what many people wished the could do-leave the rat race and life on an exotic island.
Rating: 5
Summary: Book of Puka Puka---GREAT!!!
Comment: This was one of the best books I've ever read. The book is a long narrative of past events and times that Robert Frisbie spent on Puka Puka, one of the most secluded atolls of the Cook Islands. If anyone out there has read and enjoyed "An Island to Oneself" by Tom Neale (of Suwarrow fame), then I HIGHLY recommend this book.
Some of Frisbie's descriptions of the atoll itself left me wanting to be there more than anything in the world. He really allows the reader to see just how splendid Puka Puka is.
As a warning I would say DON'T read this book UNLESS you are 100% secure with where you are right now...by the time you're done with it, you'll be looking for your own private island.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Window into a Recent Island Past
Comment: Frisbie's account (as much as it can be accepted as fact) provides a personal view of one who actually was able to "escape" post WWI western culture, and live an island life many have dreamed of.
This book reveals many day to day details of life on this island during his stay. The accounts of the actions, words and customs of the Pukapuka people is detailed, and will provide readers interested in the pre-western island era an enjoyable 2 - 3 hours reading.
Frisbie's tone at times is a little less than inviting; you can almost sense an attitude of "I have escaped, but you haven't..." Some may find this fascinating, as it is human nature to desire to be set apart from the crowd. This spirit in which the book was written adds an interesting undertone and food for thought, especially upon repeated readings.
Even as an "escapee", Frisbie's life was anything but a success, but this book continues to be a fresh picture into island ways.
Any who longs to escape, and has not yet read Black and White by Eguene Burdick, might find it a thought provoking alternate to Frisbie's enjoyable, but by no means complete, snapshot of the Pacific in the early part of this century.
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Title: An Island to Oneself: Six Years on a Desert Island by Tom Neale, Noel Barber ISBN: 0918024765 Publisher: Ox Bow Press Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. Banfield ISBN: 1929516150 Publisher: Dixon-Price Publishing Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The Blue of Capricorn by Eugene Burdick ISBN: 0935180362 Publisher: Mutual Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Castaway in Paradise: The Incredible Adventures of True-Life Robinson Crusoes by James C. Simmons ISBN: 1574090666 Publisher: Sheridan House Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Rascals in Paradise by JAMES A. MICHENER ISBN: 0449214591 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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