MACQUARRIE, HECTOR. Tahiti days. il *$4.50 (7½c) Doran 919.6
20–19772
The author was ordered to the Tahiti Islands for his health and found it there, and now invites the reader to step onto his magic carpet and follow him thither, to the fairy land of the South seas, to the “Island of tranquil delight” where the gentle Polynesians will pluck oranges for him, climb the cocoanut palms for nuts for him and regale him with their bananas and breadfruit and where he can see the natives diving for pearls. Among the contents are: Raratonga; The Moana; Tahiti; Babies; The hula-hula; Hikuero, the pearl island; Pearl diving; Breakfast on Hikuero; The Marai and Miggimiggi; Firewalking on Tahiti; The epidemic. The book is profusely illustrated.
+ Booklist 17:151 Ja ’21
“He writes of his stay in Tahiti in an interesting fashion, although he spoils his book by his coarseness and his contempt for the moral law. He is at his best when he describes the pearl diving near Kikuero Island, the pagan rite of the fire-walkers of Tahiti, or the customs of the natives.”
+ − Cath World 112:695 F ’21 130w
“It is a charming book, and one well calculated to disturb the contentment of any city dweller.” B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p12 D 26 ’20 1450w
“It is one of the most entertaining of the recent books about adventure in the islands of the Pacific.”