Ostrovy krásy, lásky a lidojedů - Díl druhý – Stingl Miloslav (2012)

A fascinating travelogue about the beauties and mysteries of the Solomon Islands, Fiji, the New Hebrides, and New Britain. After his first expedition to the legendary islands in the Pacific, in the area of Polynesia or the Many Islands, the famous traveler and ethnologist Miloslav Stingl ventures into even more mysterious corners... In the second part of his memoirs from travels to southern lands, where cannibals lived and people loved even on tiny atolls, he heads to two areas at once. First, he reminisces about his wanderings in Melanesia, 'the land of dark people,' before guiding the reader through Micronesia, a vast expanse of the world with hundreds of micro-islands, where the author arrived before the destructive forces of globalization. 'The sea rises. The sky burns. And on the azure waters of the west of this largest ocean on our planet, heavy islands float. The world here is different. Here, the world is often ten thousand years behind. Has time stopped here? No, time runs here too. But before it bridges the distance between the various cultures that today the ethnographer finds on our planet, this world, Melanesia, distant and forgotten, distant and mysterious, distant and silent, will be an image of our own past,' Stingl wrote in the introduction to the completely sold-out book from 1970. To the memories of the Solomon Islands, Fiji, the New Hebrides...