Reef Riders of Rarotonga / Scragg, Walter R L / (PB/1973-1973/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Moderate cover and page wear.*

In a big tent at camp meeting a 12-year-old boy watches a black-and-white movie. Pastor Reuben Hare is back from one of his trips to the South Sea Islands and has brought these moving pictures of his travels. Duk-duks with mud headdresses, plumed warriors from Papua, Fijians with deadly looking clubs, dance across the screen.

And then the stories begin. The deep, exciting voice of Andrew Stewart tells of the early days in the New Hebrides, of the latest encounters with former cannibals on Viti Levu. Into this world of miracle and mysterious deliverance, the boy, Walter Scragg, projects himself, hears the whistle of the descending club, bounces toward the shore in an outrigger canoe, smells the pigs and dirt of a pagan village.

Finally, as a minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Walter had the opportunity to see it, smell it, feel it all for himself. He remembers a feeling of impatience--perhaps none of the exotic, different world that the stories depicted would remain. But it was still there--still abounding in excitement; still filled with the conflicts between evil spirits and divine power; still rich in stories of miraculous victory and deliverance.

Table of Contents

Oases in the Ocean Desert
Heroes in Danger
Death Under A Mango Tree
Tui-Malila--Four Legged Prince of Tonga
Rock-and-Roll Heart Attack
Cannibals Under the Refuge Tree
Reef-Riders of Rarotonga
Departed Devils
Ratu's Letter From Jail
The Triumph of "Nothing"
Dark Shadows Among the Palms
Bave's Battle for Baptism
Automatic Adventists
Trials for Toese
Was Liki Dead?
Turn the Other Cheek
The Red Necktie
Slow Walk to Church

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