A HOME IN TAHITI
THE ISLAND BEYOND THE HORIZON, by Sverre Holmsen; James Barrie. English price, 12/6. "| HE author, a Swede with travel fever, ‘had had four years before the mast and in the Canadian lumber camps be-
fore setting out with his young wife to find a place to settle in the South Seas "far from the warped materialism and growing unrest of the civilised race." After some years in and about the Society Islands they got possession of a virgin jungle valley in eastern Tahiti and proceeded to establish a home and to live more or less. as the natives, adopting their customs and attitude to life. In the long run they were defeated, mainly by tropical storm and sickness which led to the death of their younger child. Mother and the elder child returned to civilisation; father remained to fight, with Scandinavian courage and Polynesian philosophy, a battle against French policy to realise what he could of his assets. There are some pretty pictures, and incidentally a very interesting account of a personal éxperience of a fire-walking ceremonv.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 13
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183A HOME IN TAHITI New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 13
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