Mystic Isles of the South Seas eBook Frederick O'Brien
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Mystic Isles of the South Seas eBook Frederick O'Brien
While the writing is somewhat of a slog, it is still a wonderful trip to Tahiti. O'Brien relies heavily on carefully worded descriptions of the islands' lush landscape and colorful peoples to make up where plot certainly does not thicken.That said, this is more of a journal than a story. Given that this is supposed to be fact and not fiction, then the florid prose certainly sets the stage for the characters that come and go at a bewildering pace.
I was looking for a complete description of Tahiti before tourists destroyed the place and this book is it. It takes place before WWI and ends just after the Great War and its effects on Tahitians. Not exactly Paradise but instead wild and woolly and a lovely change of pace from dry history.
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Mystic Isles of the South Seas eBook Frederick O'Brien Reviews
I admit that I purchased my original first edition of this book solely for the photographs of Tahiti and the nearby island of Moorea. The prose was of secondary interest to me.
However, upon reading the first chapter of this Irish-American adventurer's memoirs, I became hooked on the fascinating descriptions of the places and the people, whose life style was already, in 1921, being replaced by imported modernity.
The attitudes are, of course, dated and ethnocentric, but the author's love for the lands and the life of the South Seas becomes evident, as the many characters (both native and expatriate European) virtually come to life in this charming first-hand account of life in Tahiti.
This is a wonderful volume to dip into a little bit at a time, and some parts will read more easily to a 21st century arm-chair adventurer than others. But it left me with an intention to seek out the other two South Seas books by the same author, "White Shadows In The South Seas" and "Atolls In The Sun".
If you like travel memoirs of exotic, unspoiled places, you'll enjoy this book immensely, as I did.
Frank Dalton Embreeville, PA
I like the book, however since I won't be sailing my own boat there, I didn't need the latitude and longitude of every bare rock in the south Pacific.
The author is a poet and he is less prejudiced than most Westerners. He appreciates the indigenous culture of Tahiti of those days. Very well written and interesting.
While the writing is somewhat of a slog, it is still a wonderful trip to Tahiti. O'Brien relies heavily on carefully worded descriptions of the islands' lush landscape and colorful peoples to make up where plot certainly does not thicken.
That said, this is more of a journal than a story. Given that this is supposed to be fact and not fiction, then the florid prose certainly sets the stage for the characters that come and go at a bewildering pace.
I was looking for a complete description of Tahiti before tourists destroyed the place and this book is it. It takes place before WWI and ends just after the Great War and its effects on Tahitians. Not exactly Paradise but instead wild and woolly and a lovely change of pace from dry history.
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