The Love Beach by Leslie Thomas Antique Book

     The dust jacket seems to have had water damage at one point but the book looks undamaged. It was originally written in 1968. This copy is from 1969. See pictures.

     The Love Beach that Captain Cook described is now strewn with dead landing barges, but the native girls still gather there occasionally to practice their ancient rites. Leslie Thomas’s “Love Beach” is located on St. Peter, one of the Apostle Islands in the South Pacific. The two white men who disembark there are an incongruous pair. Davies, only thirty but already tenderized by repeated failure, finds an unwanted antidote to his cherished loneliness in the seventeen year old, desirable and desiring, Bird.