Book Review Thread - Beyond Tiki

V Vonratnick Member Melbourne Australia Joined: May 28, 2006 Posts: 94	V Vonratnick Posted posted on Wed, Oct 17, 2007 8:36 PM On 2006-04-22 21:24, Jungle Trader wrote: Oh yeah, Kon Tiki...Thor Heyerdahl The Book of Tiki ....Sven Kirsten If you haven't read these....you ain't Tiki Tiki Tiki. Ditto. I'm just re reading one of my faves I thought I'd share - 'Towards Tahiti' published in 1955. I thinks its very Tiki. The author (WB Crealock) sails a square rig schooner between 1951 and 1953 exploring the following locations: Galapagos San Blas Mangareva Marquesas Tuamotus Nengonengo Fakarava Bora Bora Tahiti In a dive in Tahiti: "The entertainment consisted of watching a succession of females cruise up and down under very short canvas, and eventually under bare poles." In the Marquesas: "...and together we climbed the wooded hillside in search of tikis which were said to lie there. We found the place, a small clearing draped with foliage and overgrown with grass, and the edge of the clearing we saw what seemed at first to be black blocks of weathered stone. We went closer and saw that each was hewn into a squat, life size figure with faintly leering features." Mangareva: "As the visiting male, I was naturally the target for Terumi's hula, and the sight of her weaving towards me with her hips keeping in time with the guitars, was a devastating one for a timid bachelor like myself. We were to see many hulas after that, and learned to judge fairly well the ability of a particular performer, but I doubt of any other had quite the impact of the first hula in Mangareva; and only the great Augistine in Tahiti could match it for skill". Nengonengo: "Having marked the channel, we motored up the lagoon and came to a most perfect little anchorage, where a beach formed the corner of the reef and palm trees ran along behind it for a hundred yards or more. I, for one, blessed the reef which had imprisoned us in such a place". Lotsa good B&W pics in the book Anyone suggest more in this vein?

On 2006-04-22 21:24, Jungle Trader wrote:
Oh yeah, Kon Tiki...Thor Heyerdahl

The Book of Tiki ....Sven Kirsten

If you haven't read these....you ain't Tiki Tiki Tiki.

Ditto. I'm just re reading one of my faves I thought I'd share - 'Towards Tahiti'
published in 1955. I thinks its very Tiki.

The author (WB Crealock) sails a square rig schooner between 1951 and 1953 exploring the following locations:
Galapagos
San Blas
Mangareva
Marquesas
Tuamotus
Nengonengo
Fakarava
Bora Bora
Tahiti

In a dive in Tahiti: "The entertainment consisted of watching a succession of females cruise up and down under very short canvas, and eventually under bare poles."

In the Marquesas: "...and together we climbed the wooded hillside in search of tikis which were said to lie there. We found the place, a small clearing draped with foliage and overgrown with grass, and the edge of the clearing we saw what seemed at first to be black blocks of weathered stone. We went closer and saw that each was hewn into a squat, life size figure with faintly leering features."

Mangareva: "As the visiting male, I was naturally the target for Terumi's hula, and the sight of her weaving towards me with her hips keeping in time with the guitars, was a devastating one for a timid bachelor like myself. We were to see many hulas after that, and learned to judge fairly well the ability of a particular performer, but I doubt of any other had quite the impact of the first hula in Mangareva; and only the great Augistine in Tahiti could match it for skill".

Nengonengo: "Having marked the channel, we motored up the lagoon and came to a most perfect little anchorage, where a beach formed the corner of the reef and palm trees ran along behind it for a hundred yards or more. I, for one, blessed the reef which had imprisoned us in such a place".

Lotsa good B&W pics in the book

Anyone suggest more in this vein?

Post #339079 by Vonratnick on Wed, Oct 17, 2007 8:36 PM