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The author of Riding the Iron Rooster recounts in vivid, exhilarating detail his journey--by kayak--through the wonders of New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Easter Island, and other islands of the Pacific. Reprint.
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"Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands."TIMERenowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this trip in and around the lands of the Pacific may be his boldest, most fascinating yet. From New Zealand's rain forests, to crocodile-infested New Guinea, over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors, daring weather and coastlines, he travels by Kayak wherever the winds take him--and what he discovers is the world to explore and try to understand.
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