The Golden Haze; with Captain Cook in the South Pacific. BY Roderick Cameron.
The Golden Haze; with Captain Cook in the South Pacific. BY Roderick Cameron.
Publisher: Readers Union Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. Good hardback with jacket. No inscriptions, boards have some bumping, foxing to some pages. Jacket is quite foxed with chipping, fading and marks.
Roderick Cameron visited Tahiti, Easter Island, Tonga, the Marquesas, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Hawaii between 1959 and 1961. It was a matter of flying to the main island of each archipelago and then arranging his itinerary. For instance to explore the New Hebrides he had to charter a fifty-foot launch, and to visit the Isle of Pines in New Caledonia he hired a Puss Moth. His book devotes a chapter to each area, summarising what happened there when Cook arrived and then when Cameron arrived. It is more about Cook than Cameron. 283 pages, illustrated.
