Robert Dean Frisbie
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Rarotonga, June 1.
<r IVT AROONED by Request,” Robert Ifl. Dean Frisbie’s latest book, is the story of the great hurricane which swept Suwarrow Island, in the Northern Cooks, last year.
“Ropati,” well known for his “Book of Puka Puka,” “My Tahiti” and “Mr.
Moonlight’s Island,” and many articles, left his home in Puka Puka (Danger Island) in January, 1942, and was “marooned by request” at lonely Suwar row.
In February, the hurricane struck, and he and his family of five spent twelve terrible hours tied to the topmost branches of the highest tree, while the sea swept the island beneath. He after wards went to Manihiki and wrote his story, which is now serialised in the “Atlantic Monthly” and will shortly appear in book form.
Editor of an American Army news paper during the last war, Mr. Frisbie will probably leave Rarotonga shortly for service with the United States forces in Hawaii.
Robert Dean Frisbie.