First eBook edition published in 2012 by
Awa Press, Level 1, 85 Victoria Street
Wellington, New Zealand
eISBN: 978-1-877551-06-2
© Graeme Lay 2004
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The author and publisher would like to acknowledge those publications in which some material originally appeared: Tandem Press for some of the Niue, Tonga and Rarotonga material in Passages: Journeys in Polynesia, and the journey into the heart of Tahiti in their anthology A Passion for Travel; Metro for first publishing the story of the visit to the Outer Islands of the Cook Group and a version of the Tonga story; the New Zealand Listener for Herman Melville’s story and the hike on Tahiti Iti; North – South for the ‘Losing Errol’ story; Canvas for the Gauguin story and ‘The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest’, and Cuisine for a version of story of the Hawaiiki Nui Va’a. Acknowledgement is also made to the estates of the writers Herman Melville, H.E. Bates and Robert Louis Stevenson for the incorporation of some of these writers’ lines in the text.
Cover illustration ‘Lagoon’ by Andy Leleisi’uao. Author photograph by Jane Ussher. Map by Geographx.