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Tales of the South Pacific
Tales of the South Pacific
is a
Pulitzer Prize
-winning book, which is a collection of sequentially related
short stories
about
World War II
, written by
James A. Michener
in 1946 and published in 1947. The stories were based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the
US Navy
on the island of
Espiritu Santo
in the
New Hebrides Islands
(now known as
Vanuatu
). The book was adapted as a
1949 Broadway musical
and as two films, released in
1958
and
2001
.
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