The attraction: Bayterek Tower, a 150-metre high monument in the heart One of the best books about engineers and the way they think (but rarely get books written about them).
Why did the quiet toolworker have to check the bodies? Because they were smuggling their savings in diamonds, and he had to find them on the wrecked boat, because they belonged to their daughter, and he was her "trustee" and only relative.and he ends up sailing there with a Polynesian on a hand made boat. Most people seeing the map think of "Tales of the South Pacific" (and yes, I have that and it's sequel with me).īut another book about this area is Trustee from the Toolroom, about a British worker going to find the bodies of his only sister.who was sailing with her husband in a yacht when they wrecked in a hurricane. (American Indians did the same to some nosy investigators, and they will sometimes laugh at what is in the textbooks). The settlement of the Pacific and the ability of the people to navigate all over the place is only now getting the respect of scholars, (how did the South American sweet potato move into Polynesia, for example).The young girls gone wild stories come from the sailors who mainly hit the equivalent of red light districts where unmarried girls had fun, and there is a lot of nonsense written about the area, partly due to the fact that Margaret Meade, the anthropologist, didn't realize that the girls were pulling her leg about their sexual shenanigans. On the other hand, although Bligh's voyage in an open air boat remains a famous story of survival, he went on to suffer more mutinies against his strict discipline. It's not exactly a modern day paradise either: it's more like a modern day Lord of the Flies: LINK Of course, it's the G rated version: when they arrived there, the mutineers pretty well killed each other off.
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