Set against the natural beauty of south sea islands and alive with the hazards of headhunters, sharks, storms and disease, these eight powerful short stories include 'Mauki,' which tells of a young Melanesian sold into slavery; as well as 'The Terrible Solomons,' 'The House of Mapuhi,' 'The Whale To[...]

The Beat Generation: a Beginner's Guide chronicles the origins, adventures, and inner workings of the first counterculture movement and examines its monumental legacy which ranges from abstract expressionism to the Simpsons. The Beat Generation were a revolutionary group of poets, drifters, musician[...]