In Hemingway’s France, Images of the Lost Generation, 2000, Conrad retraced Hemingway’s footsteps in Paris and on the back roads of France, finding new information on the artists and American expatriates of the 1920s and 1930s.
Fabled Isles of the South Seas with insights by Literary Greats, 1997, is considered one of the best portraits of the South Pacific. James Michener wrote in the introduction to Fabled Isles of the South Seas: “The South Pacific has played a major role in my life,. . .
Chapter Eleven
NIGHT MARCHERS
“Just as my aunt saw the marchers coming through the door, she snatched my brother away. As they went by, he tried to catch one of the legs of a fisherman, but the night marcher lifted his leg higher and kept marching…. I myself have seen it.”
––Susanna Moore, I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawaii, 2003
... I made my way down the seaside coral trail. After a wrong turn toward the lava fields, I couldn’t see a thing. Sud. . .
Chapter Eleven
NIGHT MARCHERS
“Just as my aunt saw the marchers coming through the door, she snatched my brother away. As they went by, he tried to catch one of the legs of a fisherman, but the night marcher lifted his leg higher and kept marching…. I myself have seen it.”
––Susanna Moore, I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawaii, 2003
... I made my way down the seaside coral trail. After a wrong turn toward the lava fields, I couldn’t see a thing. Sud. . .
From: Chapter Twelve
CASTAWAYS AND SHIPWRECKS
“Amongst the articles which they brought to barter … we could not help taking notice of a particular sort of cloak … nearly the size and the shape of the short cloaks worn by the women in England, and by the men in Spain.”
––Captain James Cook, The Voyages of Captain Cook, 1778
. . . The following Thanksgiving, my Hawaiian history education continued when my father and I hiked through paths in the lava fie. . .
From: Chapter Twelve
CASTAWAYS AND SHIPWRECKS
“Amongst the articles which they brought to barter … we could not help taking notice of a particular sort of cloak … nearly the size and the shape of the short cloaks worn by the women in England, and by the men in Spain.”
––Captain James Cook, The Voyages of Captain Cook, 1778
. . . The following Thanksgiving, my Hawaiian history education continued when my father and I hiked through paths in the lava fie. . .
From: Chapter Seventeen
HEMINGWAY AND FISHING WITH CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
“Uliuli Kai holo ka mano. Where the sea is dark, sharks swim. (Sharks are found in the deep sea. Also applied to men out seeking the society of the opposite sex.)”
––Mary Kawena Pukui, ‘Olelo No’eau: Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings, 1983
The night before the Kona expedition, Paulette and I went to Lulu’s, Kona’s hot nightspot. It was packed with revelers––locals and tourists of all kinds.. . .
From: Chapter Seventeen
HEMINGWAY AND FISHING WITH CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
“Uliuli Kai holo ka mano. Where the sea is dark, sharks swim. (Sharks are found in the deep sea. Also applied to men out seeking the society of the opposite sex.)”
––Mary Kawena Pukui, ‘Olelo No’eau: Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings, 1983
The night before the Kona expedition, Paulette and I went to Lulu’s, Kona’s hot nightspot. It was packed with revelers––locals and tourists of all kinds.. . .
From: Chapter Twenty
THE WORLD SERIES OF SURFING
“Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.”
––Buzzy Trent, big wave rider, 1955
The powerful waves of the Banzai Pipeline have killed thirteen surfers. As with downhill ski racers and bronc riders, the element of danger is seductive, and every year for five weeks in November and December the professional surfers converge on O’ahu’s north shore from Brazil, Europe,. . .
From: Chapter Twenty
THE WORLD SERIES OF SURFING
“Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.”
––Buzzy Trent, big wave rider, 1955
The powerful waves of the Banzai Pipeline have killed thirteen surfers. As with downhill ski racers and bronc riders, the element of danger is seductive, and every year for five weeks in November and December the professional surfers converge on O’ahu’s north shore from Brazil, Europe,. . .
From: Chapter Twenty-One
TOUGH GUYS WEAR SKIRTS
“They brandish’d Their weapons, distort’d their Mouths, Lolling out their Tongues and Turn’d up the Whites of their Eyes Accompanied with a strong hoarse song, Calculated in my opinion to Cheer Each Other and Intimidate their Enemies.”
––Lieutenant John Gore, Cook’s Voyages, 1769
... At the Center, we were warmly greeted by a group of Tongans dressed in grass skirts, feather headdresses, and shell beads. . .
