Books I found especially useful include: Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld by Theo Aronson; Poisoned Reign by Bengt and Marie-Thérèse Danielsson, (originally published as Moruroa, mon amour); Islands and Beaches by Greg Dening; The Hidden Worlds of Polynesia by Robert Suggs; Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott; Hope and Glory by Peter Clarke; Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm; The Gold Coast Past and Present by George Macdonald; Melville in the South Seas by Charles Anderson; Herman Melville by Hershel Parker; I, The Very Bayonet by Deryck Scarr; Fijian Weapons & Warfare by Fergus Clunie; Dead Mans Chest by Nicholas Rankin; A Dream of Islands by Gavan Daws; Tahitians by Robert Levy; Mystic Isles of the South Seas by Frederick O’Brien; Forever the Land of Men by Willowdean Handy; Polynesia’s Sacred Isle by Edward Dodd; Tahiti-Polynesia Handbook by David Stanley; Tahiti & French Polynesia by Robert Kay. The quotation from The New York Times in Chapter 4 is dated November 17, 1889, and given more fully in Aronson’s Prince Eddy.
RONALD WRIGHT is the internationally acclaimed author of A Scientific Romance, winner of Britain’s David Higham Prize for Fiction and chosen as a Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail, The Sunday Times, and The New York Times. His other bestsellers include Time Among the Maya and Stolen Continents, and the essay collection Home and Away. He lives in Port Hope, Ontario.
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