![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories are interconnected by recurring characters and several loose plot lines. Michener as narrator gives a first-person voice to several of the stories as an unnamed "Commander", performing duties similar to those that he himself performed during World War II. The stories take place in the environs of the Coral Sea and the Solomon Islands. Written in 1946 and published in 1947, the book was loosely adapted in 1949 as the Broadway musical South Pacific, which itself formed the basis of two films dating from 19. The stories are based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy at the Espiritu Santo Naval Base on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands (now known as Vanuatu). Michener about the Pacific campaign in World War II. Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of sequentially related short stories by James A. ![]()
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