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The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest

Travel Tales of the South Pacific

The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest( )
Author: Lay, Graeme
ISBN:978-0-9582509-0-0
Publication Date:Aug 2004
Publisher:Awa Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

This marvelous collection of travel stories from the South Pacific reveals Paul Gauguin's shocking Tahitian secrets, retraces the last tragic days of Robert Louis Stevenson, and recounts the author's own haunting by Herman Melville, as well as his attempts to seduce the Slovenian Olympic ski team in the Cook Islands.

Book Details
Pages:259
Detailed Subjects: Travel / Australia & Oceania
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.538 x 7.644 x 0.936 Inches
Book Weight:0.708 Pounds
Author Biography
Lay, Graeme (Author)


Graeme Lay was born in 1944 in Foxton. He graduated from Victoria University of Wellington and became a school teacher. He soon became books editor of North and South magazine in 1992. He has published two novels, The Mentor (1978) and The Fools on the Hill (1988), two collections of short stories, Dear Mr Cairney and Motu Tapu, and edited four short story anthologies, Metro Fiction, the popularly successful 100 New Zealand Short Short Stories, Another 100 New Zealand Short Short Stories, and The Third Century.

He has since changed his focus to non-fiction with Passages: Journeys in Polynesia (1993), Pacific New Zealand (1996) and, in the planned `Pacific Pride' series, his working titles are The Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Fij and James Cook Lost World.

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