Tales of the South Pacific After learning that Amelia Earhart

After learning that Amelia Earhart kept a scrapbook with newspaper articles about successful women in male-dominated jobs

free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life who was the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits

But it won’t be so easy

and the wry sense of humor that made him the country’s most colorful codger

Tales of the South Pacific After learning that Amelia EarhartTales of the South Pacific is the iconic, Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece that inspired a Broadway classic and launched the career of James A. Michener, one of Americas most beloved storytellers. This thrilling work invites the reader to enter the exotic world of the South Pacific and luxuriate in the endless ocean, the coconut palms, the waves breaking into spray against the reefs, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes. And yet here also are