Rascals in Paradise
James A. Michener, A. Grove Day, Steve Berry, "Rascals in Paradise"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0812986865, 0449240223, 0394442202 | 400 pages | EPUB | 4.9 MB
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0812986865, 0449240223, 0394442202 | 400 pages | EPUB | 4.9 MB
In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired . Co-written with A. Grove Day, 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 captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as. From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in Michener and Day’s capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend. “The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared in a long time . . . a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on end.” “[Combines] research and scholarship (A. 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).”