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READING GUIDE & FRENCH ere is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail- Horder book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your voyage, go directly to reading.longitudebooks.com/D924803.

ITMB ESSENTIAL Tahiti Travel Reference Map 2008, MAP, PAGES, $12.95 Item EXPAC259. Buy these 5 items as a set for $76 A detailed traveler’s map (1:100,000) of including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free Tahiti and nearby , including shipping on anything else you order. , Moorea, Tahaa and . (Item Paul Theroux PAC326) The Happy Isles of 2006, PAPER, 480 PAGES, $16.95 ALSO RECOMMENDED The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up Lonely Planet exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, Lonely Planet South Pacific including Tonga, and the Marquesas, in this wickedly funny, wide-ranging tale. (Item Phrasebook PAC03) 2008, PAPER, 320 PAGES, $8.99 This handy pocket phrasebook covers the , John Miller (Editor) languages of the , , Noa Noa, The Tahiti Journal Fiji, , , New Zealand, , Norfolk & islands, , Tahiti 1985, PAPER, 96 PAGES, $5.95 Gauguin’s impressions of two years in French and Tonga. (Item PAC224) Polynesia, originally published in 1919. With 24 Anne Salmond black-and-white illustrations. (Item PAC13) Aphrodite’s Island, The European Discovery of Tahiti Paddy Ryan 2010, HARD COVER, 537 PAGES, $47.95 The Snorkeller’s Guide to the Coral Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, , Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Samuel and many more early European Ocean voyagers join local heroes, Tahitian warriors 1994, PAPER, 184 PAGES, $21.99 and kings in this authoritative, richly detailed This take-along guide covers coral reefs, fish, history of and its allure. invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific Author and anthropologist Anne Salmond and includes 200 color photographs. (Item (Two Worlds, The Trail of the Cannibal Dogs) DIV18) is a professor at the University of Auckland. (Item PAC219) Tony Wheeler, Jean-Bernard Carillet Paul D’Arcy Lonely Planet Tahiti and French The People of the Sea, Environment, Polynesia 2012, PAPER, 296 PAGES, $22.99 Identity, and History in Oceania This practical guide to Tahiti and French 2008, PAPER, 292 PAGES, $25.00 Polynesia includes a good overview of history, D’Arcy looks at the oceangoing traditions culture and nature and helpful travel details for of the peoples of the Pacific from 1770 to your journey. (Item PAC86) the present in this scholarly but accessible overview. (Item PAC310) Francoise Cachin Caroline Alexander Gauguin Tahiti The Bounty, The True Story of the 2011, PAPER, 372 PAGES, $65.00 This illustrated catalog features gorgeous 2004, PAPER, 491 PAGES, $20.00 reproductions and authoritative essays on A lively account of the familiar misadventures Gauguin and his time in Tahiti. With 260 of , including a fresh look at the color and 80 black-and-white illustrations of fate of the mutineers back in England and at paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints and Pitcairn. A rousing tale of class barriers, the sculptures. (Item PAC92) British courts and seamanship. (Item PAC134)

Thor Heyerdahl, F. H. Lyon (Translator) Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft South Sea Tales 1990 PAPER 304 PAGES, $5.99 , , 2008, PAPER, 289 PAGES, $14.95 The hugely popular account of a daring 1947 These entertaining tales, set among both real voyage that sailed along the Humboldt and and mythical islands, show Stevenson’s keen Equatorial currents from Peru to Tahiti. Apart observations of island life. (Item PAC15) from the sheer adventure, Heyerdahl wanted to show the world that could have settled the region. With photographs. (Item James Michener PAC10) Tales of the South Pacific 2014, PAPER, 384 PAGES, $16.00 David Lewis The first of the big Michener novels, set in We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of World War II Polynesia. It’s great fun, and the Landfinding in the Pacific basis for the Rogers & Hammerstein musical 1994, PAPER, 464 PAGES, $31.99 “South Pacific.” (Item PAC18) This engaging classic examines how Stone Age Polynesians may have navigated the Pacific. Matthias Bergbauer The scholarly volume will appeal to seafarers Reef Fishes of the Indo-Pacific and modern Pacific travelers. (Item PAC35) 2015, PAPER, 352 PAGES, $35.00 A handy field guide to over 800 species of reef J. Maarten Troost fish common to the Indo-Pacific. In beautiful Headhunters on My Doorstep John Beaufoy style, the guide’s colorful and 2014, PAPER, 304 PAGES, $17.00 high-quality photographs are accompanied by In his latest wry and witty tale of Pacific detailed information on identifying features, adventure, the newly sober Troost heads for size, biology and distribution. (Item DIV63) the Marquesas, the , Tahiti, the Gilberts and Samoa -- a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s In the South Seas in hand. (Item TO ORDER PAC316)

Robert Louis Stevenson In the South Seas 1999, PAPER, 283 PAGES, $17.00 2838 Vicksburg Lane A set of Stevenson’s personal sketches Plymouth, MN 55447 describing a year of travels in the Marquesas, [email protected] Paumotus and the Gilberts, first written www.longitudebooks.com as magazine articles and then reworked to incorporate detail on local peoples and history, Shipping charges via UPS or Priority Mail: $4.95 for first book, $1 per published posthumously. (Item PAC147) additional book up to a maximum of $9.95.

Julia Whitty Book prices and availability subject to change. The Fragile Edge, Diving and Other Checks, Visa, MasterCard, AmEx and Discover accepted. Adventures in the South Pacific Call (+1) 800 342 2164 or go to 2008, PAPER, 304 PAGES, $18.95 Whitty illuminates coral reefs, their inhabitants reading.longitudebooks.com/D924803 and the pleasures of diving in this memoir of underwater adventures in , and © 2015 Longitude Rev 4/16 Moorea. Winner of the 2008 Kiriyama Prize and John Burroughs Medal. (Item PAC173)