<p>Although this collection of short stories is fiction, author Harold Stephens felt he could better tell the truth in fiction about the social habits and traditions of the people of the Pacific Rim, from Tahiti across the vast Pacific to Southeast Asia. What happens when a man wants to buy an Asian wife or when an American woman wants to impose her ideas of liberation on an Asian woman? Educate an Asian servant girl and what are the results? What are the consequences when a top gun fighter pilot changes his mind about the war in Vietnam? Can a school teacher impose foreign concepts on kids of a different faith, and can a beachcomber find true love in Tahiti?The answers to these questions and others can be found in this compelling book of short stories by an author who has lived most of his adult life in Asia and the Pacific</p>

Tales from the Pacific Rim

Harold Stephens

Wolfenden

The Voyages of Schooner Third Sea, by Harold Stephens is a book with 379 pages including 131 photographs that is packed with adventure. Explore forgotten islands in the South Seas, sail up wild rivers of the East, search for battle sites of World War II, dive on sunken wrecks, fight off pirates and more. It s the story of one man who had the dream of doing all these things, and did then. He built his own boat, but not any boat a schooner. He did it with little money but with a dream he made come true. Now you can read how he got his schooner and for twenty years searched for the rainbow s end. You sail to Tahiti and the Marquesas, Samoa and Hawaii and all the forgotten islands from Vanuatu to Papua New Guinea. You sail up the Chao Phraya River to majestic Bangkok and cruise the historical Strait of Malacca to Penang and Phuket in southern Thailand. You dive on the British HMS Repulse sunk off the Malay coast by Japanese dive bombers, and you search for President Kennedy s PT-109, cut in two by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomons. You trade for pearls at Tongareva in the Cook Islands and rescue a hermit living on an atoll in the Line Islands. You meet solo sailors like Bernard Moitessier, Tristan Jones and Ed Boden and trading boat skippers and even pirate chieftains. In fact, you will fight off pirates in remote eastern Indonesia. But more than anything you learn about the sea, the phases of the moon, the currents, the Trade Winds and about the world we live in. Aboard Schooner Third Sea you learn to live life to its fullest. And you learn that dreams are possible.

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Tales from the Pacific Rim

The Voyages of Schooner Third Sea

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