The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest – Travel Tales of the South Pacific

By Graeme Lay

For intrepid traveler Graeme Lay, the islands of the South Pacific are the most intriguing places on Earth: sublimely beautiful, blissful, blissfully remote, full of wonderful people and cultures—and a haven for bizarre misfits, would-be adventurers, and artists and writers in search of an earthly paradise.

In this collection of stories, Lay uncovers Paul Gauguin’s shocking secrets in Tahiti, is haunted by Herman Melville in the Marquesas, is forced to impersonate a Mormon missionary in Tonga, attempts to seduce the Slovenian Olympic ski team in Rarotonga, retraces the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, gets embroiled in a wild canoe race in Bora Bora, and much, much more…