Post #282829 by Cammo on Sat, Feb 3, 2007 7:40 AM

If you like Michener, you're gonna love Louis Becke.

Becke has an amazing biography - he was basically a pirate for a while - and crafted the toughest, most accurate real life tales ever about South Pacific life. They're also funny as hell.

Michener basically modernized Becke's style & subject matter and made a big name for himself, he admitted so many times later in life. Not to take anything away from him, let's just say he was a real big Becke fan...

Read them for yourself, bro, they're killer. Free versions of the texts are all over the internet.

Louis Beck;
"Pacific Tales"
"By Reef and Palm:
"By Rock and Pool"