SUGGESTED READING

SOUTH PACIFIC We are pleased to bring you reading materials to support your onboard experience and complement your moments ashore. The Smithsonian Collection by Smithsonian Journeys is an engaging enrichment program led by a wide range of experts who are eager to share their first-hand knowledge and expertise. As part of the program, Smithsonian Journeys and our Smithsonian Journeys Experts are pleased to share the below reading lists.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION These 5 items are available as a set for $89 including shipping, 15% Robert Hughes. The Fatal Shore. Vintage Books, 1988. In this off the retail price (Item EXAUS164). Any additional books ordered celebrated social history, both scholarly and entertaining, will be shipped free of charge. See page 4 for ordering details. Hughes traces the fate of those who were transported to the penal colonies of between 1787 and 1868. It’s an engaging popular account, drawn from the experiences Bill Bryson. In a Sunburned Country. Broadway Books, 2001. of the colonists themselves. (PAPER, 752 Pp., $21.95, The intrepid, ever-resourceful Bryson revels in Australia’s Item AUS04) eccentric characters, dangerous flora and fauna and other oddities in this wildly funny, effortlessly informative Keith Sinclair (Editor). The Oxford Illustrated History of New travelogue. (PAPER, 335 Pp., $16.99, Item AUS83) Zealand. Oxford University Press, 1998. An illustrated history of New Zealand up through the 1990s. (PAPER, 408 Pp., $65.00, Item NZL40) Eyewitness Guides. Eyewitness Guide Australia. DK Publishing, 2016. Featuring hundreds of innovative maps, color photographs and choice recommendations for Iain McCalman. The Reef, A Passionate History. Macmillan, excursions and sightseeing. (PAPER, 588 Pp., $30.00, 2015. McCalman, a historian at the , Item AUS101) brings to life the explorers and scientists, beachcombers, divers, indigenous peoples and castaways who first experienced the . (PAPER, 352 Pp., 16.00, Eyewitness Guides. Eyewitness Guide New Zealand. Item AUS277) DK Publishing, 2016. This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region- Bruce Chatwin. The Songlines. Penguin, 2012. Rory Stewart by-region overview of attractions. (PAPER, 384 Pp., $25.00, provides the introduction to this 25th anniversary edition Item NZL45) of Chatwin’s celebrated travelogue. Chatwin transforms a journey through the Outback into an exhilarating, semi- fictional meditation on our place in the world. (PAPER, ITMB. Australia Map. ITMB, 2010. A handy, folded map at a 320 Pp., $17.00, Item AUS01) scale of 1:3,500,000. (MAP, Pp., $12.95, Item AUS23)

National Geographic Maps. New Zealand Adventure Map. National Geographic Maps, 2011. A detailed map at a scale of 1:1,000,000, printed on handy tearand water-resistant paper. (MAP, Pp., $11.95, Item NZL09)

SOUTH PACIFIC 1 ARCHAEOLOGY, ART & ARCHITECTURE TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Continued

Thomas Keneally. Australia. Harry N. Abrams, 2014. This epic history of Australian art begins with early aboriginal Chris Duff.Southern Exposure. Globe Pequot Press, 2003. paintings from the 1800s and leads up to contemporary Seasoned kayaker Chris Duff challenges the waters of the works by modern artists, exploring the inescapable link Pacific while ruminating on the beauty of New Zealand’s between the dramatic landscapes and the art scene through coast and its people. (PAPER, 264 Pp., $17.95, Item NZL63) 200 drawings, paintings and photographs. (HARD COVER, 320 Pp., $75.00, Item AUS276)

Francoise Cachin. Gauguin Tahiti. Distributed Art Books , Philip Edwards (Introduction). The Journals (DAP), 2011. This illustrated catalog features gorgeous of Captain Cook. Penguin, 1999. Cook’s narrative of reproductions and authoritative essays on Gauguin and his his expeditions between 1768 and 1779. Includes his time in Tahiti. With 260 color and 80 black-and-white explorations of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii and a illustrations of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints and host of other previously unheard-of Pacific locales. (PAPER, sculptures. (PAPER, 372 Pp., $65.00, Item PAC92) 650 Pp., $16.00, Item PAC98)

Jill Ker Conway. The Road from Coorain. Vintage Books, 1990. An absorbing account of a young rural girl’s coming of age in post-war Sydney. Conway paints a vivid picture of isolation and beauty -- and of the challenges of a bright, TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR ambitious woman growing up Australian. (PAPER, 238 Pp., $14.95, Item AUS03) Paul Theroux. The Happy Isles of . Mariner Books, 2006. The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas, in this wickedly funny, wide-ranging tale. (PAPER, 480 Pp., $16.95, Item PAC03) LITERATURE Robyn Davidson. Tracks, A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Robert Ross. Australia, A Traveler’s Literary Companion. Miles of Australian Outback. Vintage Books, 1995. The true Whereabouts Press, 1998. Arranged geographically, this story of a woman’s trek across the Australian Outback -- an collection of works by mostly local writers, including Patrick adventurous tale shot through with a feel for the landscape White, Peter Carey and other luminaries, introduces the and empathy for the Aborigines she meets along the way. cultures, geography and mindset of Australia. (PAPER, 256 (PAPER, 256 Pp., $15.95, Item AUS15) Pp., $13.95, Item AUS38)

Sarah Turnbull. All Good Things, From Paris to Tahiti. Robert Louis Stevenson. South Sea Tales. Oxford University Gotham Books, 2014. Her French husband posted to French Press, 2008. These entertaining tales, set among both real Polynesia, the chipper Australian Turnbull, said husband and mythical islands, show Stevenson’s keen observations and West Highland Terrier, Maddie, decamp from Paris to of island life. (PAPER, 289 Pp., $14.95, Item PAC15) Moorea in this endearing memoir, which is about, among many things, her newborn son. (PAPER, 336 Pp., $17.00, Item PAC321)

Keri Hulme. The Bone People. Viking, 2010. Set on the South Christina Thompson. Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Island, this powerful novel brings together three troubled Eat You All. Lightning Source, 2009. Historian Thompson individuals who represent Maori and European traditions in effortlessly alternates tales of mostly disastrous early contemporary New Zealand. (PAPER, 464 Pp., $16.00, Item encounters with the Maori and the story of the love NZL02) of her life, Seven, the Maori she married, in this endearing memoir. (PAPER, 288 Pp., $16.00, Item NZL96)

M.l. Stedman. The Light Between Oceans. Scribner, 2013. A Robert Louis Stevenson. In the South Seas. Penguin, 1999. New York Times bestselling novel. After serving on of the A set of Stevenson’s personal sketches describing a year of Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes travels in the Marquesas, Paumotus and the Gilberts, first a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. He moves his written as magazine articles and then reworked to wife Isabel to the isolated island and the couple struggle incorporate detail on local peoples and history, published through three failed pregnancies. Then, a boat washes up posthumously. (PAPER, 283 Pp., $17.00, Item PAC147) onshore with a dead man and a living baby and Isabel insists it is a gift from God. (PAPER, 352 Pp., $17.00, Item AUS305)

SOUTH PACIFIC 2 LITERATURE NATURAL HISTORY & FIELD GUIDES Continued Paddy Ryan. The Snorkeller’s Guide to the Coral Reef, . University of Hawaii Eleanor Catton. The Luminaries. Little Brown and Company, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean 2014. Murder and mystery in 19th-century New Zealand. Press, 1994. This take-along guide covers coral reefs, fish, This epic and intricately constructed tale -- spinning out invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific and over 800 pages -- is set during the wild days of the 1866 includes 200 color photographs. (PAPER, 184 Pp., $21.99, gold rush on the west coast of South Island. It’s just over Item DIV18) Arthur’s Pass from where Catton was raised in Christchurch. (PAPER, 864 Pp., $18.00, Item NZL126) Ken Simpson, Nicholas Day. Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. Princeton University Press, 2010. A handbook Herman Melville. Typee, Omoo, Mardi. Viking, 1982. and field guide to Australia’s birds with 2,000 vivid color Melville’s South Pacific trilogy featuring a Yankee sailor who illustrations, each accompanied by a brief description and jumps ship and enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku revised range map. (PAPER, 440 Pp., $39.50, Item AUS06) Hiva in the Marquesas. (HARD COVER, 1333 Pp., $45.00, Item PAC62)

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