Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992.

Meganesia -- New Zealand: The Land of the Long White Cloud -- New Zealand: Sloshing Through the South Island -- Waffling in White Australia -- Walkabout in Woop Woop -- North of the Never-Never -- Melanesia -- Buoyant in the Peaceful Trobriands -- Aground in the Troubled Trobriands -- The Solomons: Down and Dirty in Guadalcanal -- The Solomons: In the Egg Fields of Savo Island -- Vanuatu: Cannibals and Missionaries -- The Oddest Island in Vanuatu -- Fiji: The Divided Island of Viti Levu -- Fiji: Vanua Levu and the Islets of Bligh Water -- Polynesia -- Tonga: The Royal Island of Tongatapu -- Tonga: Alone on the Desert Islands of Vava'u -- In the Backwaters of Western Samoa -- American Samoa: The Littered Lagoon -- Tahiti: The Windward Shore of the Island of Love -- A Voyage to the Marquesas -- The Cook Islands: In the Lagoon of Aitutaki -- Easter Island: Beyond the Surf Zone of Rapa Nui -- Easter Island: The Old Canoe Ramp at Tongariki -- Paradise -- O'ahu: Open Espionage in Honolulu -- Kaua'i: Following the Dolphins on the Na Pali Coast -- Ni'ihau and Lana'i: Some Men Are Islands -- The Big Island: Paddling in the State of Grace.

Beginning in New Zealand and coming to shore in Hawaii, the author explores fifty-one islands along the way in a collapsible kayak.