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Pacific Books
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,001,995 ratings — published 2010
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,760,357 ratings — published 2001
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,389 ratings — published 2019
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,334 ratings — published 1957
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,252 ratings — published 1948
The Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,428 ratings — published 2009
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,703 ratings — published 1992
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.07 — 871,755 ratings — published 2012
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.87 — 26,606 ratings — published 2003
Tales of the South Pacific (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,682 ratings — published 1947
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,789 ratings — published 1959
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,074 ratings — published 2015
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,080 ratings — published 2003
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,198,905 ratings — published 1996
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.62 — 7,208 ratings — published 2015
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.50 — 48,248 ratings — published 1981
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,728 ratings — published 2000
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,240 ratings — published 2007
State of Fear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.71 — 92,176 ratings — published 2004
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,322 ratings — published 2011
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,558 ratings — published 2002
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.87 — 46,968 ratings — published 2011
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,082 ratings — published 1846
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,540 ratings — published 1980
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,178 ratings — published 2006
The Curse of Lono (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,262 ratings — published 1983
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.20 — 141,075 ratings — published 2003
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.54 — 418 ratings — published
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,150 ratings — published 2020
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,593 ratings — published 1987
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.52 — 34,266 ratings — published 2009
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,695 ratings — published 2024
Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.08 — 626 ratings — published 2005
The Naked and the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,547 ratings — published 1948
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,227 ratings — published 1928
Leaves of the Banyan Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.96 — 275 ratings — published 1979
Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.26 — 198 ratings — published 2010
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,434 ratings — published 2016
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,202 ratings — published 1970
Rascals in Paradise: Turbulent Adventures and Bold Courage on the South Seas (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.79 — 532 ratings — published 1957
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,757 ratings — published 2005
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,762 ratings — published 2003
Day of Infamy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,903 ratings — published 1957
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,398 ratings — published 2003
Lost Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.77 — 511 ratings — published 2008
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,133 ratings — published 1984
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific)
avg rating 4.15 — 45,786 ratings — published 2024
Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.90 — 97 ratings — published 2012
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.40 — 53 ratings — published 2010
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,222,630 ratings — published 1954
“Earlier in the morning Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines had attacked eastward into the ruins of Shuri Castle and had raised the Confederate flag. When we learned that the flag of the Confederacy had been hoisted over the very heart and soul of Japanese resistance, all of us Southerners cheered loudly. The Yankees among us grumbled, and the Westerners didn’t know what to do. Later we learned that the Stars and Stripes that had flown over Guadalcanal were raised over Shuri Castle, a fitting tribute to the men of the 1st Marine Division who had the honor of being first into the Japanese citadel.”
― With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
― With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food.”
― Reach for Paradise
― Reach for Paradise
