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Pacific Books
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.39 — 997,093 ratings — published 2010
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,752,378 ratings — published 2001
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,196 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 — 25,093 ratings — published 1957
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,071 ratings — published 1948
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,673 ratings — published 1992
The Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,344 ratings — published 2009
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.07 — 866,860 ratings — published 2012
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.87 — 26,455 ratings — published 2003
Tales of the South Pacific (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,618 ratings — published 1947
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,550 ratings — published 1959
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,038 ratings — published 2015
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,058 ratings — published 2003
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,191,349 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 — 7,078 ratings — published 2015
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.50 — 47,645 ratings — published 1981
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,717 ratings — published 2000
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,184 ratings — published 2007
State of Fear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.71 — 91,763 ratings — published 2004
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,493 ratings — published 2002
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,159 ratings — published 2011
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.87 — 46,833 ratings — published 2011
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,033 ratings — published 1846
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,487 ratings — published 1980
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,057 ratings — published 2006
The Curse of Lono (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,234 ratings — published 1983
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.20 — 140,373 ratings — published 2003
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.53 — 414 ratings — published
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,048 ratings — published 2020
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,440 ratings — published 1987
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.52 — 34,205 ratings — published 2009
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.46 — 20,278 ratings — published 2024
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,124 ratings — published 1970
The Naked and the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,445 ratings — published 1948
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,202 ratings — published 1928
Leaves of the Banyan Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.96 — 272 ratings — published 1979
Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.26 — 197 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 — 2,404 ratings — published 2016
War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,911 ratings — published 1986
Rascals in Paradise: Turbulent Adventures and Bold Courage on the South Seas (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.79 — 532 ratings — published 1957
Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.08 — 622 ratings — published 2005
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,715 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 4.36 — 11,645 ratings — published 2003
Day of Infamy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,860 ratings — published 1957
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,359 ratings — published 2003
Lost Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.77 — 506 ratings — published 2008
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,997 ratings — published 1984
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.15 — 42,787 ratings — published 2024
Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.90 — 97 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 a reason the remote Pacific was the last place on Earth to be settled by humans: it was the most difficult, more daunting even than the deserts or the ice.”
― Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
― Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food.”
― Reach for Paradise
― Reach for Paradise
