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- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Post-WWII
In 1943 on Bougainville Island, New Guinea, a Japanese officer beheads Hugh Rand, an Australian spy — a coast watcher. The spectators include villagers he terrorised as his mind frayed under the stress of pursuit by soldiers and their...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
In the wilds of the most diverse nation on earth, while she copes with crocodiles under the blackboard and sorcery in the office, Trish Nicholson survives near-fatal malaria and mollifies irascible politicians and an ever-changing roster of bosses –...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Adventure, Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
Vietnam vet Max Donovan discovers his war-time buddy has been accused of murder. Suspecting his friend has been framed and unable to come up with the bail money, he must solve the case himself. The feathers of a rare...
Plunge – One Woman’s Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary
- Location(s): United States (USA), Caribbean, The Bahamas, The South Seas
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Present
Tropical waters turn tumultuous in this travel memoir as a free-spirited woman jumps headfirst into a sailing adventure with a new man and his two dogs. Join Liesbet as she faces a decision that sends her into a whirlwind...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2016
A Danish filmmaker, under the apprenticeship of three Papua New Guinean master sailors, set off from Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, on the 30th of August 2016 on a world-record circumnavigation of the island of New Guinea in a...
The Coconut Wireless: A Travel Adventure in Search of the Queen of Tonga
- Location(s): Tonga
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
- Era(s): 1996
When Simon and Fiona embark on a quest to track down the Queen of Tonga, they have no idea they’ll end up marooned on a desert island. No idea they’ll encounter an undiscovered tribe, rescue a drowning actress, learn...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1961 and 2012
The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story. Despite exhaustive...
Far Out: Sailing into a Disappearing World
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean, The South Seas
- Genre(s): Travelogue
Tired of their careers in the oil industry, Corinna Weyreter and Gjalt van der Zee sailed away from the rat race in search of freedom and adventure in the fabled South Pacific. Taking only what could justify its space...
Love with a Chance of Drowning
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Love can make a person do crazy things. . . A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a...
- Location(s): Vanuatu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s
Advent Island is a place beyond the reaches of Bea’s most fitful imaginings. It’s not just the rats and the hordes of mosquitos and the weevils in the powdered milk. Past the confines of their stuffy little house, amidst...
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