Zane Grey Photo Album and Journals, 1928-1929

Title

Zane Grey Photo Album and Journals, 1928-1929

Creator

Date

c. 1930

Format

Publisher

Description

Zane Grey is best known for his melodramatic novels of the American West, his most popular being Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). An avid fisherman, Grey also had a keen interest in the Pacific and traveled to Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti. Grey held over ten world records for large game fish and was the first person to catch a fish over 1,000 pounds on rod and reel, a 1,040 pound blue marlin caught in Tahiti in 1930. The photo album and tapa-covered diaries recount his travels in Tahiti and Fiji from December 7, 1928 to December 24, 1930.

Is Part Of

Pacific Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

Page Location

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