On a stormy February morning the yacht Lurline leaves San Pedro for Hilo and Honolulu, the start of a fourteen-thousand-mile cruise through the South Seas. Freeman describes the Marquesas, the Society Islands, Samoa and Fiji, their harbours, people and colonial officials, with an eye for comedy and an appetite for adventure.
A breezy account of Pacific island travel in the early twentieth century, for armchair sailors. Download the free EPUB.