By
eHow Culture & Society Editor
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
- CD Players
- VCR Tapes
- VCRs
- CDs
- Airline Tickets To The South Pacific
Step1
Pick up Paul Gauguin's memoir of his years in Tahiti, "Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal."
Step2
Travel with Laurie Gough through Fiji, among other places, in her book, "Kite Strings of the Southern Cross."
Step3
Find out why James A. Michener won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his epic, "Tales of the South Pacific."
Step4
Read Robert Louis Stevenson's wonderful collection of stories, "South Sea Tales."
Step5
Follow Harvard-educated anthropologist and psychologist Richard Katz as he discovers indigenous healing and spirituality in "The Straight Path of the Spirit: Ancestral Wisdom and Healing Traditions in Fiji."
Step6
Zoom in on the many diverse cultures of the Pacific in Ben R. Finney's "Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia."
Step7
Listen to David Fanshawe's fascinating collection of recordings from the Pacific, "Spirit of Polynesia."
Step8
Find religion listening to the incredible sounds of the Tahitian Choir in its collections, "Rapa Iti" and "Rapa Iti, Volume II."
Step9
Sway to the sounds of the ocean and Te Vaka's mellow, modern Polynesian rock on "Original Contemporary Pacific Music."