Many people 1 _______ Paul Theroux as one of the world’s best travel writers. *The Happy Isles of Oceania*, one of his classic travel books, is an 2 _______ of a long 3 _______ around the islands of the South Pacific. The book 4 _______ stories about the people he meets with a 5 _______ on how he feels from day to day. This is important, because he made the trip at a time in his life when he had a lot of personal problems. He wanted to 6 _______ to himself that he could get on with life, even when.