“The Michener saga is as full of twists as any of his monumental works. “Michener’s own life makes one of his most engaging tales-a classic American success story.”- Entertainment Weekly Here at last is the real James Michener: plainspoken, wise, and enormously sympathetic, a man who could truly say, “The world is my home.” Moving backward and forward across time, he writes about the many strands of his experience: his passion for travel his lifelong infatuation with literature, music, and painting his adventures in politics and the hard work, headaches, and rewards of the writing life. In this exceptional memoir, the man himself tells the story of his remarkable life and describes the people, events, and ideas that shaped it. Michener was “a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart” ( The New York Times Book Review).

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).” -*Kirkus Reviews a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on end.”- The New York Times “The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared in a long time. From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in Michener and Day’s capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend.īONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise 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 Bounty captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A.

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