I think I validated other books by this guy. He writes interesting things
and you are correct about learning new vocabulary and a chance to be part
of somebody's quirky life. Rather cool.
Congratulations on taking on the project. Interesting book in strange
shape with things missing as I recall.
I wanted to read it in its fixed up form so thanks since now I can.
E.
More than a travel memoir, Transit of Venus is an interesting and readable history of the South Seas nations, written with humor. Toward the end of the book, the author visits the Marshall Islands and Bikini atoll and describes the messy and unsanitary conditions the natives live under, having been moved from their homes by the American military. Of course, the book was written in 1992. Hopefully our government has improved the living conditions since then.
After reading this book, I've lost all desire ever to go to the South Pacific. New Caledonia, Fiji,Vanuau, etc. don't sound the least bit beautiful or romantic, although when you see the tourist-beckoning sites online the beaches, etc. look beautiful. Maybe the islands' towns and beaches have been cleaned up and there are more things to do than the author found.
If you're anything like me, your vocabulary will increase by reading this book. There were a lot of words I didn't know, some deriving from a history I didn't know enough about, some being English or Australian words. Fortunately, it's quick and easy to look them up in google while reading the book. smile I love volunteering for bookshare--I have learned so much from different books, and about the existence and genre and quality of different authors, and about the various capabilities of Word.--and I thought I was well-educated before. smile
This was a good scan except for the end-of-line breaks (and missing 15 pages in the middle, by which time it was too late to reject. smile) I don't know who scanned it and I don't know if anything can be done about that except to pre-validate and get rid of them. I know my scans used to have the same thing, but I always pre-validated before submitting. I think it may be the OCR. Now, because I have Fine Reader 5, I'm not getting those end-of-line breaks.
Cindy
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