Toki: The True Adventures of William Mariner

Name: Toki: The True Adventures of William Mariner
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The true story of 15-year-old William Mariner of England, who was captured in Tonga in 1806 and lived for four years with the King of Tonga, Finau 'Ulukalala. One the best and most intimate descriptions of Polynesian culture before the impact of European missionaries.

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Publication Date: Apr 5, 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9781105000478
Category: History
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Brian K. Crawford

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William Mariner 'Ulukalala Tonga history survival

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About Brian Crawford

Brian Crawford lives in Marin County, California, with his wife and son. In addition to several collections of short fiction and a series of memoirs about his hippie days, he has written Toki, a historical novel about the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga. He has also reprinted a number of out-of-print books about Pacific exploration. His fiction has been published in the print magazines Bust-Out Stories and Paradox Historical Fiction, and the online journals Slow Trains, e-clips, Clean Sheets, Sedona’s Attic, and Oysters and Chocolate, where his story The Heat won a Grand Prize. Born in Ohio in 1947, Crawford attended Antioch College but dropped out and went to Haight-Ashbury for the Summer of Love. After several years and many adventures on the road, he joined a group that bought a schooner in Nova Scotia and Crawford served as Second Officer, sailing it down the East Coast. Later he went to Tonga in the South Pacific, where he met his future wife Linda and sailed to Australia

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