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London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. h/b 235 pages, condition is good, this is an ex library book with the usual stamps. 'Nobody seems to know much about the Cook Islands,' said the amiable librarian at the British Museum. To an Irish biographer with a taste for travel, this was a challenge which could not be ignored, and Ronald Syme set out forthwith for the South Pacific. There he stayed, getting to know the islands and their Polynesian inhabitants, until his yearning for 'a cottage, a pig, a few hens and a bit of decent fishing' finally overcame his half-hearted attempts to give up this easy and pleasant life, and he settled down for good in the small but beautiful island of Rarotonga. Today, twenty years later, he has acquired the cottage, the hens and the fishing. (He had a pig, too, but it got eaten last Christmas.) Unexpectedly he also acquired a lovely Polynesian wife and an equally attractive daughter. Mr Syme has thus been able to study at first hand the…
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- Title Isles of the Frigate Bird
- Author Syme, Ronald
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 235
- Language ENG
- Publisher Michael Joseph, London
- Date 1975
- ISBN 9780718113780
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