Rascals In Paradise: Turbulent Adventures And Bold Courage On The South Seas (1987) - Plot & Excerpts
Rascals in Paradise contains about seven short biographies of South Sea adventurers. Each sketch is packed with history, geography and little known facts about the Pacific Islands. Each person written about is an exceedingly interesting character who led fascinating lives upon the waves. Almost none of them had I heard of before, Captain Bliegh, of Bounty fame, being the one exception. I learned about William Edgar Leeteg, the inventor of black velvet painting as we know it. Walter Murray Gibson was an adventurer of the highest order, all over the map, jailed, excommunicated by the Mormons, attempted to establish an oceanic empire. Bully Hayes, the biggest buccaneer and professional deadbeat of his era. Louis Becke, Australian writer of island literature whose book of short stories about island traders and their native wives I am reading now. Each chapter is just splendid. This seems to be an overlooked book by Michener but it is definitely worth a read and can be found very cheaply in many used book stores.
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