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by Api Tahiti (Editor), Hinatumata Nona Rampa Robinson (Introduction by), Weston Martyr (Introduction by)
By the author of: - "Deep Water and Shoal" - "Voyage to the Galapagos" - "To the Great Southern Sea" - "Return to the Sea". ---------------------------- After their father's death in 1988, the daugthers of William Albert Robinson fell on "Gull Graves" a little story that he had written years back. It was in a battered brown envelope at the bottom of an old metal trunk. Years went by.....and more years.... today they have decided to bring this story to life in memory of their father. Their father once wrote: "So farewell. I must be off, for I have a rendez-vous at the end of the rainbow" This story is probably not the end of the rainbow, but it illustrates the talented writer ...
Author Biography
Born on August 13, 1902 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was an only child and grew up with his mother, Ella Huegin. He made his name by sailing around the world in a small boat from June 1928 to NoVember 1931 - the first man to accomplish the feat in so small a boat. He became famous. His first book "Deep Water and Shoal", was published in 1932 recounting this incredible adventure and became a best seller. He was considered as being one of the world's greatest contemporary explorers. In 1945, William Robinson definitely left the United States and on his brigantine called Varua, sailed to Tahiti. He became renowned across the Pacific in connection with scientific work looking for a cure for filiarisis, and founded the "Fare Mariri" now known as the " Louis Malard? institute". Robbie, as he was known, passed away on the 16th of January 1988 and is buried on the family property, on the land of Ofaipapa, in Tahiti.
