'Beachcomber' defined..

The opening page of 'Beachcomber: A New Zealand & Pacific Miscellany':

*Sounds like a lot of the TC ohana..? :wink:
Tama :)

Wow. I always thought it was just a person who wandered around the beach a lot.

Nope, they did not all look like Don :) :

Here's a crash course in Beachcomber history:

http://books.google.com/books?id=CfXPH_gof_cC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=edward+robarts&source=web&ots=d_xF_IP5i9&sig=_0052YS5JBMlRZy5zvh7ajZn3C8#PRA1-PA83

-"Campbell presents a study of the lives and experiences of Europeans and Americans in the age of early industrial overseas expansions, who became detatched from their own societies and lived, sometimes for many years, among Pacific Islanders as integrated members of their communities, often with little hope of returning home and frequently with no wish to do so. As engaging as primitivism was to European philosophers, the realities of contact between seafarers and islanders who faced previously unimagined technological and human marvels were much more pragmatic."-

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-02-04 17:28 ]

the term "Beachcomber" was first used in a book by Herman Melville on "Omoo" the following of "Typee" in 1847.

Great book, mostly based in Tahiti, even if I prefer his adventure on Typee, the cannibal valley of Nuku Hiva.

Awesome posts.