The Pacific Ocean calls to mind a world of fabulous kingdoms and
noble savages, guilt free sex and gin-clear lagoons, and a perfect
idleness fed by lush fruits and fish-rich seas. Ever since Captain
Cook first went to Tahiti in 1769 to observe the transit of Venus
across the sun, this dream of the Pacific has not lost its force.
But Julian Evans's journey through the island archipelagos of the
Great Ocean was also informed by a quest into our more modern myths
- such as Peacekeeper missiles and nuclear bombs being tested by
the US Army. With humour and vivid imagery, honesty and a wickedly
sardonic wit, Evans uncovers the reality of these two Pacific
dreams: a brave new ocean where the islanders have money and booze,
military coups and cold-war politics, atomic explosions and rising
sea levels, but where, in the remotest atolls, beyond all our
modernity and rationality, the old dream of islands continues to
assert itself.
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