The author of White Shadows in the South Seas goes to Tahiti and Moorea with one aim, to play. He records the market at Papeete, the dances and songs, the beachcombers, traders and islanders he drank and talked with, a strike broken in the port, and long days on the reef and the lagoon.
A colourful, sometimes rueful portrait of French Polynesia around the end of the First World War. Download the free EPUB.