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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 12 (March 1, 1935)

Voyaging in the Pacific

Voyaging in the Pacific.

Macmillan Brown was fifty years old when he began a new phase of activity, a life that led him cruising about the Pacific Ocean until he became the most travelled of all New Zealand's writers and publicists, and indeed probably the greatest scientific traveller in the world. When failing eyesight forced him reluctantly to give up his professorial work he realised that, as he could not continue to read and write by artificial light he would have to seek the regions of longest sunshine and short winters or no winters. So he became a rover of the Pacific, seeking the sunshine of the tropic lands. He reconstructed his whole scheme of life, and turned his necessity to profitable account by studying the racial origins and problems and social anthropology of the Pacific Islands peoples.