num_pages: 322
description: This place is the northern limit of Eugene Burdick's Oceania - the realms of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. In this book, the author of The Ninth Wave and co-author of The Ugly American explores a world rich in paradox and in drama, a modern world of polyglot islanders and of primitive savages, a physical world of languorous beauty and uncompromising rigors. Some of the story must be told factually. The ocean itself is described in terms of its surface currents, the life of its tremendous depths, its winds, and the migrations of its birds. Some of it must be told in terms of its peoples - their histories and their customs forming the frame for individual portraits. And some must be told as fiction, to do justice to the subtle interplay of forces between the islander and the invader, the islander and the limitations of his tiny world, the foreigner and his acceptance of exoticism. Here are poignant love stories of outsiders trying to come to terms with a life at once violent, remote and inescapably alluring.
language: English
title: The Blue of Capricorn
titlecomplete: The Blue of Capricorn
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Mutual Pub Co