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.The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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by: J. Maarten Troost

June 20, 2004
Light fun read about a tropical hell hole plagued by faeces and NGO's. Just the book to read on a boring flight or in the airport lounge while you're travelling to another boring business meeting. If genuinely interested in the South Pacific then there's none better than "The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840" (Hardcover)
by Alan Moorehead
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.Bike New Zealand: Cycling from Cape Reinga to Bluff
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by: Paul Salter

March 01, 2007
Light fun read about a tropical hell hole plagued by faeces and NGO's. Just the book to read on a boring flight or in the airport lounge while you're travelling to another boring business meeting. If genuinely interested in the South Pacific then there's none better than "The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840" (Hardcover)
by Alan Moorehead
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.Australia: 25 Ultimate Experiences (Rough Guide 25)
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by: Rough Guides

May 03, 2007
Really small book. Don't expect to receive a guide book. This book only highlights the most common places to see in Oz.
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.A Land of Two Halves: Looking for a Lift in Both New Zealands
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by: Joe Bennett

September 06, 2004
This is a great book. My kiwi wife has always told me going to Invercargill is no good idea. Now I understand why. Joe Bennet writes short sentences, underscoring the puns. That can be irritating, but I find it's great. Reading this book as a New Zealander may be hard going on your national pride, though. This book is more fun than Where Underpants Come from
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.Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Lonely Planet Country Guide)
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by: Jocelyn Harewood, Tione Chinula, Vincent Talbot

July 01, 2006
This is a great book. My kiwi wife has always told me going to Invercargill is no good idea. Now I understand why. Joe Bennet writes short sentences, underscoring the puns. That can be irritating, but I find it's great. Reading this book as a New Zealander may be hard going on your national pride, though. This book is more fun than Where Underpants Come from
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.Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific
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by: Michael Moran

March 01, 2004
Moran's style and humour prevails throughout this compelling and meaningful book. From start to finish one is engulfed into a world so unlike anything that exists in the west. For that very reason, you cannot help but feel a sense of excitement and adventure. Add into that his dry (with an 'old world' British twist) sense of humour and it becomes captivating. It's clear that Moran's subjects are all very well researched. The depth and breath of knowledge of this obscure place and its people can only have come from someone who has a genuine interest in it, and enough passion in him to actually go there! It's this interest and passion that shines through, making it (in my opinion) one of the most unusual and offbeat travel books around today.
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.New Zealand (AA Spiral Guides)
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by: Veronika Meduna, Mavis Airey

April 30, 2002
Moran's style and humour prevails throughout this compelling and meaningful book. From start to finish one is engulfed into a world so unlike anything that exists in the west. For that very reason, you cannot help but feel a sense of excitement and adventure. Add into that his dry (with an 'old world' British twist) sense of humour and it becomes captivating. It's clear that Moran's subjects are all very well researched. The depth and breath of knowledge of this obscure place and its people can only have come from someone who has a genuine interest in it, and enough passion in him to actually go there! It's this interest and passion that shines through, making it (in my opinion) one of the most unusual and offbeat travel books around today.
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.Australia Travel Map (Globetrotter Travel Map)
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from: New Holland Publishers Ltd

2006-09
Moran's style and humour prevails throughout this compelling and meaningful book. From start to finish one is engulfed into a world so unlike anything that exists in the west. For that very reason, you cannot help but feel a sense of excitement and adventure. Add into that his dry (with an 'old world' British twist) sense of humour and it becomes captivating. It's clear that Moran's subjects are all very well researched. The depth and breath of knowledge of this obscure place and its people can only have come from someone who has a genuine interest in it, and enough passion in him to actually go there! It's this interest and passion that shines through, making it (in my opinion) one of the most unusual and offbeat travel books around today.
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.New Zealand (AA Key Guide) (AA Key Guides Series)
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by: AA Publishing

April 15, 2007
Moran's style and humour prevails throughout this compelling and meaningful book. From start to finish one is engulfed into a world so unlike anything that exists in the west. For that very reason, you cannot help but feel a sense of excitement and adventure. Add into that his dry (with an 'old world' British twist) sense of humour and it becomes captivating. It's clear that Moran's subjects are all very well researched. The depth and breath of knowledge of this obscure place and its people can only have come from someone who has a genuine interest in it, and enough passion in him to actually go there! It's this interest and passion that shines through, making it (in my opinion) one of the most unusual and offbeat travel books around today.
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.A Secret Country
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by: John Pilger

May 21, 1992
In order to gain a critial understanding of this book it is important to understand the genre of writing it typifies. Succinctly put, true to its journalistic origins, it is close to the thick description of an ethnographer, but lacking any of the associated methods or comparative data which would have helped to contextualise the claims. Along with other contemporary practitioners of this dubious art, such as Bill Bryson for example, once having read Pilger, one is simply left wondering about the clear (over) reliance on anecdotal evidence. How representative are the claims? Is Pilger any more insightful, or rather less glib and superficial, than the object of his critique i.e. those who have a vested interest in preserving/marketing the officially ... Read More:
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