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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,022,159 ratings — published 2010
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,793,028 ratings — published 2001
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,141 ratings — published 2019
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,229 ratings — published 1957
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,981 ratings — published 1948
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,831 ratings — published 1992
The Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,591 ratings — published 2009
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,179 ratings — published 2003
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.07 — 894,434 ratings — published 2012
Tales of the South Pacific (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,938 ratings — published 1947
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,552 ratings — published 1981
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.22 — 82,780 ratings — published 1959
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,198 ratings — published 2015
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,139 ratings — published 2003
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,230,653 ratings — published 1996
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.62 — 7,689 ratings — published 2015
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,948 ratings — published 2011
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,339 ratings — published 2007
State of Fear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.71 — 93,760 ratings — published 2004
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,158 ratings — published 2000
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.87 — 47,430 ratings — published 2011
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,636 ratings — published 1980
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,723 ratings — published 2002
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,275 ratings — published 1846
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.46 — 27,561 ratings — published 2024
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,575 ratings — published 2006
The Curse of Lono (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,394 ratings — published 1983
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.20 — 144,189 ratings — published 2003
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.53 — 445 ratings — published
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,626 ratings — published 2020
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.85 — 13,293 ratings — published 1987
Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.07 — 641 ratings — published
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.53 — 34,534 ratings — published 2009
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,286 ratings — published 1928
The Naked and the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,960 ratings — published 1948
Leaves of the Banyan Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.95 — 282 ratings — published 1979
Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.25 — 210 ratings — published 2010
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,529 ratings — published 2016
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,334,909 ratings — published 1954
Rascals in Paradise: Turbulent Adventures and Bold Courage on the South Seas (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.80 — 550 ratings — published 1957
Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.32 — 459 ratings — published 1975
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,916 ratings — published 2005
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,065 ratings — published 2003
Day of Infamy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,040 ratings — published 1957
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,525 ratings — published 2003
Lost Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.78 — 528 ratings — published 2008
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,733 ratings — published 2003
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,737 ratings — published 1984
Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.91 — 101 ratings — published 2012
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.40 — 53 ratings — published 2010
“There is nothing at any of our beaches at all comparable with the tremendous surf we saw at San Jose. Huge waves, mountains high, white and foaming, broke on the beach with a deafening roar and such awful power and fury as to make one shrink from the thought of launching upon its waters”
― A Winter in Central America and Mexico.
― A Winter in Central America and Mexico.
“I sought out men who’d had unusual experiences or more likely had usual ones that they understood with unusual clarity, and from this melange of information and observation I acquired a good perception of what the great Pacific adventure meant in human terms. Clearly, almost clinically, I concluded that if you ordered all the young men of a generation to climb Mount Everest, you would expect the climb to have a major significance in their lives. And while they were climbing the damned mountain they would bitch like hell and condemn the assignment, but years later, as they looked back, they’d see it as the supreme adventure it was and they’d want to read about it to reexperience it.
These thoughts led to a clear-cut conviction: Years from now the men who complain most loudly out here will want to explain to others what it was like. I’m sure of it, so I’m going to write down as simply and honestly as I can what it was really like. And I reassured myself: No one knows the Pacific better than I do; no one can tell the story more accurately. This was not a boast; it was true and relevant to the task I planned to set myself.”
—Chapter VIII, “Writing”, page 265”
― The World Is My Home a Memoir
These thoughts led to a clear-cut conviction: Years from now the men who complain most loudly out here will want to explain to others what it was like. I’m sure of it, so I’m going to write down as simply and honestly as I can what it was really like. And I reassured myself: No one knows the Pacific better than I do; no one can tell the story more accurately. This was not a boast; it was true and relevant to the task I planned to set myself.”
—Chapter VIII, “Writing”, page 265”
― The World Is My Home a Memoir
