Publisher's Synopsis
Passages is an account of Graeme Lay's journey throughout the South Pacific. It is a personal and often humorous book chronicling a still pure, still beautiful world of sea, sky and islands and the people who inhabit that world. About the AuthorGraeme Lay was born in Foxton, in the Horowhenua, grew up in Taranaki and was educated at Victoria University of Wellington. Since the 1970s he has lived on Auckland's North Shore, where he is a full-time writer. Two of his young adult novels, Leaving One Foot Island and Return to One Foot Island, were finalists in the NZ Post Children's Book Awards, and he has twice been a finalist in the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year Award. Married with three adult children, Graeme Lay is also secretary of the Frank Sargeson Trust. His other interests are reading, travel, photography and the sea.