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Could be used for Vanuatu in a read-the-world challenge, which is useful because it's both more available and easier to engage with than Grace Mera Molisa's Black Stone, the only other ni-Vanuatu book I've found.Pretty much what it says--tales from the tropics, not so much a memoir as little memoirs...
This is, without doubt, the most fascinating travelogue I have ever read. Frater follows the monsoon from its genesis in Kerala up to Cherrapunji in Assam, the wettest place on earth: in the process, he gives fascinating insights about India, the monsoon, India + the monsoon (a strange entity!) and...
Just started and I know I'm really going to like this...
A pleasant though rather inconsequential account of a journey through India, prompted by health troubles and family memories (and the freelancer's eternal search for something to write about). Frater affects a rather naive tone, which I think is a pose. But his experiences, such as they are, are not...
Interesting nuggets buried in a meandering and disconnected narrative. Fraser is all over the place in time and space, and doesn't stop to orient the reader very often. The South Pacific is fascinating, but this treatment didn't work for me.
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