Thanks to John Borthwick 's selection, this was the Peter Pinney book I really wanted to find.
Thank you eBay!
This book covers Pinney's time in the Caribbean, across the Pacific via Tahiti and them back to his home in Sydney, Oz.
Along the way, he gets stranded at sea, falls in and out of love, acts as a double for Brando in the movie Mutiny on the Bounty, offers an insight into white male attitudes to Polynesia and Polynesians (women in particular) in the 50s, and stows away on a cruise ship to get back to Sydney.
I think I can remember the final line when he gets back to Sydney (having carefully forged his health certificate into being up-to-date):
"By all the gods that ever were, it was good to be home!"
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