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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific | Paul Theroux

In #Oceania the new year has started already and with it #ReadingOceania24!
You can read authors from the countries and/or books set there.
You‘ll find the prompts and reading suggestions on Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/ece66821-f9a2-4e67-b74d-15d70c8...

All welcome to join @Librarybelle and me 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

Airykah13, Daisey, Hooked_on_books, DGRachel, kspenmoll, teariffic.books, Texreader, Gissy, jenniferw88, Bookwormjillk, Itchyfeetreader, Currey, squirrelbrain, Bookwomble, tdrosebud, Singout, psalva

Librarybelle Yay!!! 4mo

BarbaraBB @Librarybelle 🩵 4mo

Soubhiville Oh interesting! I‘m going to watch this, I bet there will be some really cool mostly unknown books that show up with this challenge. 4mo

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Bookwormjillk This is going to be a fun one to research. Thanks! I‘m starting with my library‘s copy of

When in Vanuatu: A Novel

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Gissy I don‘t know well how to enter the books in the form. Do I have to read the books in the order of the countries mentioned? Sorry, I‘m not not good understanding these things. But is so fascinated because as @Souhiville said, there will be a chance to know about books or authors unknown to me. 🤗 4mo

BarbaraBB @Gissy you don‘t need to fill them in there, but it might be handy to see the countries of which the challenge exists. The challenge focuses on Litsy though: Just read a book set in as many of the countries of Oceania and tag us and use the hashtag #ReadingOceania24. That way we can all share our books for the various countries and other will be able to find them easily! 4mo

Gissy @BarbaraBB Okay 👌 📚🤗Thank you 4mo

Deblovestoread Not that I need another challenge but I‘d like to join in to read about these places, if that‘s ok? 4mo

squirrelbrain @Bookwormjillk - I have that on my list too. I found it on Everand (Scribd) so I just hope it doesn‘t disappear before I get to it, as they have a habit of doing. 4mo

squirrelbrain The lovely Holly @Hooked_on_books sent me two books specially for this challenge. ❤️ Holly has managed to get a copy of this one from the library so we‘ll buddy read it very soon.

We Are the Ocean: Selected Works

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squirrelbrain I‘m also going to read this one fairly soon (bought used for 60p) as it will cover a few countries / islands. I‘m probably going to double-dip on this challenge, depending on what books I can get hold of for the other smaller, more obscure, islands.

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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Bookwormjillk @squirrelbrain Everand has been on my naughty list lately. I‘m thinking of canceling (as soon as #LitsyTOB24 is over of course.) 4mo

squirrelbrain @Bookwormjillk - they had Mobility for #LitsyTOB24 but it disappeared. 🤷‍♀️ It‘s not actually published here until tomorrow so I‘m hoping it reappears (or becomes available on Audible) 4mo

Hooked_on_books I have a little stack I picked up from my library to get started on tomorrow. I feel like I have a leg up, being in the middle of the Pacific on Polynesian land! I‘m excited for our buddy read @squirrelbrain ! Do you want to get started tomorrow? (Jan 1) 4mo

squirrelbrain Yes, let‘s do that! @Hooked_on_books Not sure how far I‘ll get as I‘m working (again) tomorrow, and then the rest of the week is going to be manic. 🤨 4mo

BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread Of course!! We‘d love to have you joining us 💚💚 4mo

Liz_M @LitsyEvents 4mo

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LitsyEvents

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific | Paul Theroux

Reposting for @barbarabb and @librarybelle
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2664478

Librarybelle Thanks for reposting! 5mo

BarbaraBB Thanks!!! 5mo

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Decalino

Hopeland | Ian McDonald

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This wasn't quite what I expected; for one thing, it was as much fantasy as SF. The Hopeland family has its own religion, including the practice of electromancy using Tesla coils. Meanwhile Amon Brightbourne bears the legacy of the Grace, a serendipitous force in his life that sets a momentous chain of events in motion, connecting England, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland & the island kingdom Avu'a, in a decades long adaptation to a changing climate.

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rwmg

Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific | Christina Thompson

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From the blurb, I was expecting a lot more about the Polynesians' own ideas about their origins rather than the Europeans' changing ideas on the subject. Having said that, it was a fascinating account and, if nothing else, has fixed in my mind the difference between Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, although I could have done with larger maps.

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rwmg

Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific | Christina Thompson

#coffeeandabook #bookclubchoice

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Texreader

Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature | Thor Heyerdahl

My last excellent find today at HPB. Our family are big Thor Heyerdahl fans especially having visited the Kon Tiki Museum in Norway and we got to learn more about him. This is a first edition from 1974

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LeahBergen

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas | Herman Melville

#JohnnyBergen and the little book tree. 🎄

Sleepswithbooks What a beautiful photo 🎄🐶 1y

kspenmoll I love this- so peaceful! 1y

ShelleyBooksie Adorable 1y

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BookNAround Two of my favorite Litsy things: Johnny Bergen and book trees. 1y

JacqMac Beautiful! 1y

jlhammar How gorgeous—both tree and pup! 1y

Rissreads Awwwwww ♥️ 1y

Ruthiella Beautiful tree! Hi to Johnny! ❤️🐶 1y

Cathythoughts I just want to hug Johnny. Lovely tree 👌🏻 (edited) 1y

Leftcoastzen So cute ! Both Johnny & the tree! 1y

squirrelbrain Oh 👋 hi, Johnny Bergen! 😘 1y

sarahbellum Johnny! 😍 1y

Christine ❤️❤️❤️ 1y

batsy A beautiful scene! A kiss for Johnny, who's looking angelic 😁💜 1y

Gissy 😍🎄💚❤️💚❤️ 1y

BarbaraBB Yay! I was waiting for your tree! 1y

rubyslippersreads Absolutely lovely! I think Johnny is wondering what Santa is going to bring him. 🎅🐶 1y

LeahBergen @Sleepswithbooks @kspenmoll @ShelleyBooksie @BookNAround @JacqMac @jlhammar @Rissreads @Ruthiella @Leftcoastzen @squirrelbrain @sarahbellum @Christine @Gissy @BarbaraBB Johnny sends you all his thanks. 😆 1y

LeahBergen @Cathythoughts And he‘d let you. He loves being squeezed! 😆 1y

LeahBergen @batsy It‘s all an act. He knows Santa‘s coming soon. 😉 1y

LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads Most likely a lump of coal in his wee stocking. 1y

AnnR 🎄🎄🎄 So cute!!! 🐶🐶🐶 1y

Megabooks Yay for Johnny content!! 💜💜🎄🤩 (edited) 1y

CarolynM 😍 1y

DivineDiana What a beautiful photo! ❤️📚🎄🐶 ❤️ 1y

vivastory 💙 this post 📚🎄🐶 1y

LeahBergen @Ann_Reads @Megabooks @CarolynM @DivineDiana @vivastory Thanks, all! 😘😘 1y

AvidReader25 That book tree!!! 😍 1y

LeahBergen @AvidReader25 Thanks! 😘 1y

Suet624 I love all of this. Just gorgeous. Johnny is contemplative, I see. 1y

LeahBergen @Suet624 He‘s contemplating bad deeds. 😉 1y

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TheAromaofBooks

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft | Thor Heyerdahl

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This was my #BookSpin for this month, a book I've been meaning to read for years! It was one of Dad's favorites when he was a kid, and while it was dry in places, I can still see the appeal for 12-year-old Dad, who went on to become an engineer haha

In the 40s, the author, who was living on a Polynesian island at the time, theorized that instead of those islands being originally populated from Asia, the could have come from South America. He ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) based his theory on many oral traditions and stories of the native people he had met. Determined to prove that it was at least a possibility, he and five others built a raft out of balsa logs, using only materials that would have been available at the time, and actually did sail from Peru to a Polynesian island just east of Tahiti - 4300 nautical miles in 101 days. They were mostly carried by trade winds and the Humboldt Current. ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Since this book was published, this theory has fallen out of favor, because genetic testing has shown that “most“ of the native people of Polynesia did have ancestors from Asia. However, even the article I read that was incredibly dismissive of Heyerdahl, both as a person and of his theory, admitted that genetic testing had also shown that that some people were descended from South Americans as well. I'm a little confused as to why it ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) can't be both, but I'm just a layman haha This book was published in 1950 so there are a few things that jar with modern sensibilities, but for the most part Heyerdahl has a great respect for the native peoples both in Peru and the Polynesian islands. As a story, this is great fun, even if the author does tend to somehow make even very exciting moments a little dry - just collecting the logs for the raft was quite the adventure! ⬇ 2y

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) This is a bit of a soft pick. It was fun to read and it's honestly crazy that they did this at all, but it didn't become my new favorite or anything.

#Booked2022 - Involves Exploration @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaratheBibliophage
#RoaringWolf - Beach @Roary47 @Littlewolf1
#MtTBR
#BookSpinBingo 2y

Roary47 I‘m interested in this collecting logs scene now. Great job! 🥰💛 2y

5feet.of.fury I‘m always fascinated by how people went about trying to figure things out before modern science as we know it. 2y

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tournevis

Mardi: And a Voyage Thither | Herman Melville

#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

❶ Yes, though I read news and fanfic most on my phone
❷ My Kobo or my Kindle, depending on availability.

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! Have a great day! 💙📖 2y

tournevis @TheSpineView You too! 💙 💙 💙 2y

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Pip2

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas | Herman Melville

When the skipper was attempting to dissuade the sailors from going on leave one of the sailors denouncing him as “a lying old son of a sea-cook who begrudged a fellow a few hours Liberty,” exclaimed an oath, “ but you don‘t bounce me out of my liberty, old chap, for all your yarns; for I would go ashore if every pebble on the beach was a live coal, and every stick a gridiron, and the cannibals stood ready to boil me on landing.”

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