If You Can't Go on Adventure Now...You CAN prepare for it!

From the preface of Charles Nordhoff's The Pearl Lagoon:

"I know the islands fairly well - white man and native; skipper, trader, and pearl diver; the sea, the lagoons, the small and lonely bits of land; and I can vouch for the genuineness of the story's atmosphere. As for the story itself, there is nothing in it which as not happened, or might not happen today - for Romance, like the sea itself, is ever old and ever new." C.N., Tahiti, 1924

(I'm temporarily laid up after an adventurous event, but am using the 'down' time for armchair adventures...most delightful!)