'A wonderful book...He voyaged from the Solomons to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, the Marquesas and Easter Island, stepping stones in an odyssey of courage and toughness, finishing up in Hawaii...Not since Jack London has a writer described the Pacific Islands so eloquently and informatively' Observer 'He has an unfailing eye for the quirky, the bizarre and the revealing...A sharp, fascinating and highly entertaining book...Theroux at his best' Daily Telegraph