In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. -- Kirkus Reviews.
Grove Day was a professor at the University of Hawaii) with a gift for spinning a yarn and depicting character (Michener, journalist and novelist, needs no introduction). -- The New York Times [Combines] research and scholarship (A. a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on end. . .
Praise for Rascals in Paradise The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared in a long time .
From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in Michener and Day\'s capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend.
Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some overlooked, including Sam Comstock, a mutinous sailor whose delusions of grandeur became a nightmare
Will Mariner, a golden-haired youth who used his charm to win over his captors; and William Bligh, the notorious HMS Bounty captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as.
Co-written with A.
Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific .
In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A
