Madcap journeys: Pacific

Bell, Gavin, In search of Tusitata: travels in the Pacific after Robert Louis Stevenson. Picador, 1994. 996 BEL

A sensitive and entertaining account which evokes the sights and sounds of the South Seas. It is a personal literary odyssey to find "Treasure Island" and the blithe spirit of its creator. A finalist for Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award 1995.

Brown, Michael, The taming of the crew : the story of the New Zealand family who sold up and sailed away into the worst winter storms for half a century. Random House, 1994. 910.45 BRO

The account of a hair raising expedition from New Zealand to Tonga and Fiji through some of the worst gales in half a century.

Phelan, Nancy, Pieces of heaven: in the South Seas. University of Queensland Press, 1996. 996 PHE

Almost forty years after her previous visit, Nancy returned to Kiribati, Samoa and the Cook Islands and saw first-hand the changes brought by independence. The result is an exhilarating account of island life in the 1950s from the perspective of the 1990s.