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Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher's description: Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true, Typee was immensely popular and regarded in Melville's lifetime as his best work. It established his reputation as the literary discoverer of the South Seas and inspired the likes...
Publisher
Anderson Merchandisers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An unassuming pet photographer is thrown into serious action, adventure, and romance when he is forced to marry a Croatian bride and spend his honeymoon on a remote Tahitian resort, where he must rescue her after she is kidnapped.
Publisher
Licensed by Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The kingdom and the crown: "This sesquicentennial program traces the significant contributions of British saints and their ancestors. Journey ... to important sites in [British] Church history, then follow the trail of early Saints who converted to the Church and sailed across the Atlantic to Zion."--Container.
Islands of love, people of faith: "There are places in the Pacific Islands, beautiful beyond imagination, where uncommon faith is a common...
Author
Series
Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Shinji and his S.E.A. cohorts travel to a forgotten island in Polynesia in search of a lost culture.
As Shinji struggles to understand and control his new guardian magic, the members of S.E.A. learn that a sunken ship belonging to the long extinct Natia people has been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Shinji, Lucy and Tinker, along with Oliver Ocean and Phoebe Mystic, a quirky, enthusiastic magic expert who has been called...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianč, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow,...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When the handsome Frenchman Phillippe Durand is faced with a trip abroad with his children, he approaches Jennifer with an offer: a summer job as the twins' nanny -- on the idyllic island of Tahiti. Jennifer forges a tentative friendship with her employer and begins to put together the pieces of this mysterious man, a former member of the Mormon Church haunted by a past fraught with death and heartbreak.
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