Those Faraway Islands
November, 1978
In a world fast becoming hopelessly homogenized, it's reassuring that some small corners of it--remote and untrammeled--retain their fierce individuality.The south seasHuahine, a half-hour flight from Tahiti in French Polynesia, was in the last decade principally a vanilla-growing island where the black, shiny four-foot-long bean pods took a year to dry and perfumed the air for miles out to sea. Basically unspoiled, it now has a Bali H'ai beach hotel, whose guests are put up in thatched fares, o...
