Thames to Tahiti (1933)

by Sidney Howard

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Pärlfiskaren : äventyr på och under Söderhavet by Victor Berge (Cynfelyn)
Cynfelyn: Thames to Tahiti, ch. 20-22, deals with Howard's time at Takaroa in 1932, as Berge's guest.

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Accompanied by John Johnstone, a Dover yachtsman, the author sailed his 38ft cutter Pacific Moon from Dover to the Pacific. Sailing west, they visited Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde, crossing the Atlantic and through the Panama Canal, they made a 4,000 mile non stop sail to the Marquesas and on to Tahiti. (

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Mr. Howard's narrative is sober and simple. It is, in fact, so well written that a reader is under way, well on in the voyage to the South Seas, before he pauses to reflect that he is in excellent company.

added by Cynfelyn | editD/w of the 1951 ed., H. M. Tomlinson (May 11, 2018)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Sidney Howard	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Jordan, K. C.	Maps	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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1933

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Sidney Howard

John W. Johnstone

Pacific Moon (38-foot auxiliary cutter yacht)

Victor Berge

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Dedication

To John

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Nearly everyone wants to go to the South Seas and visit the most wonderful islands in the Seven Seas - but the bonds of habit and the duties and obligations of the average person's normal life prevent the desire from being accomplished.

Chapter I. Gate to adventure.

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1st pub., 1933; 1st pub. in the Mariners Library, 1951.

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Tomlinson, H. M.

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English

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