Great writer - great trip. Makes you want to go and see all the tropical islands for yourself.
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His best travel book-NY Times Notable Book of the Year. New Zealand's rain forests, crocodile-infested estuaries in New Guinea, volcanic islands, coral atolls, rubbish-strewn harbors, wild, perilous coastlines, sharky waters, windswept islands. He brings penetrating intelligence to every place he touches..a Pacific Voyager