PIM's Very Own Pacific, In Book Form

Regular Pacific Islands Monthly readers won’t need an introduction to the 37 writers whose stories have been published in PI M’s Pacific.

Most have been fairly consistent contributors to the Monthly between 1950 and 1965—the years from which this collection of South Seas stories has been made.

The writers come from all walks of life—ex-Governors, public servants, school teachers, journalists, crocodile-shooters, pub-keepers, master-mariners, cruising-yachtsmen, traders—but all of them have been closely associated with one or other of the Pacific Islands.

Most of the writers are interesting in their own right—a fact that is brought out in the short biographical notes that introduce each story.

Although those in the collection are not necessarily the best stories that have appeared in PIM over the last 15 years, they all have an enduring quality that will—we hope—make them as interesting to read 10 years from now as they are today.

An effort has been made in their selection to give an overall picture of Pacific Islands life as it appears, or has appeared, to those most closely connected with it; and, at the same time, to produce something that can be read with equal appreciation by the Islands and the non-islands reader.

The stories were not chosen for their penetrating soul-searching into Pacific politics or other serious matters; they are designed for relaxation and entertainment. Subjects covered are adventure, travel, personal experience and history.

Material was selected and edited by Judy Tudor.

The book is illustrated, has 224 pages, is cloth-bound and has an attractive full-colour dust-jacket illustrating what might be called four aspects of Islands life. (PIM’S PAClFlC—Stories from the South Seas. Pacific Publications. 27/6.)