Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz

Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz

Author:Tony Horwitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2002-02-26T16:00:00+00:00


Stafford stirred my journalistic juices. I resolved to crack the red-banana story before leaving the island. If nothing else, this mission would give Roger and me something to do other than going to church or expiring at the Wicked Wahoo Bar. So the next day we headed off to tour Niue again, searching the roadside foliage for red bananas.

It’s hard to find a plant you’ve never seen. Nor were there many people to guide us, only the occasional rooster or dog or coconut crab skittering across the road. “Another ribbon of tar, another coconut tree,” Roger said, as we completed our second circumnavigation of the island. The only breaks in the monotony were the ubiquitous graves, many of them curiously inscribed; one memorialized a woman “who fell on sleep May 30th 1917.”

Then, as we were preparing to retreat to the hotel, we passed a small house with a sign in the yard:



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