by Leslie Allen, et al
The other authors of this book are Ron Fisher, Thomas O\’Neill, Cynthia Ramsay, Tom Melham and Christine Eckstrom Lee. So it\’s a travel kind of book describing islands. Japan, the Galapagos, Bali, Ireland, New Zealand and the Seychelles. The writing is a bit uneven- I liked the voice of several of the authors, others were dull. My favorite chapter was the one about the Galapagos, it mentions lots of animal encounters. Did you know a few of the Galapagos Islands are inhabited? I didn\’t. Each chapter kind of has a different focus: the one about Bali tells a lot about religion, ceremony and culture. The one about New Zealand is mostly about its geography and how much the people there love the outdoors. The chapter on Ireland has a touching story about the author finding some long-lost relatives. The photographs are lovely throughout. But near the end of the book my attention was seriously waning. I just don\’t know if I\’ll ever read it again.
Rating: 3/5 200 pages, 1987
