The Story
Traveling the South Pacific: Without Reservations is the account of one woman, a timid grandmother with limited resources, who spent eight months exploring a dozen islands in the Cook Group, the Fijian Archipelago, and Samoa. Her travels bring the reader far beyond the tourist beaches and resorts and deep into the respective Polynesian and Melanesian cultures.Brunes records a decade of change as she returned to the islands again and again to revisit friends and update information that she shares with her readers about budget travel accommodations along with a bit of history and word portraits of Pacific people, both indigenous and expatriate.The book has 328 pages, profusely illustrated with black and white photos.
Description
Traveling the South Pacific: Without Reservations is the account of one woman, a timid grandmother with limited resources, who spent eight months exploring a dozen islands in the Cook Group, the Fijian Archipelago, and Samoa. Her travels bring the reader far beyond the tourist beaches and resorts and deep into the respective Polynesian and Melanesian cultures.Brunes records a decade of change as she returned to the islands again and again to revisit friends and update information that she shares with her readers about budget travel accommodations along with a bit of history and word portraits of Pacific people, both indigenous and expatriate.The book has 328 pages, profusely illustrated with black and white photos.
