Ghost of Christmas past

The Scotsman | April 3, 1999| | Copyright

IT may be a truism but beauty can indeed be deceptive. And nowhere more deceptive than in a place of popular fantasy. As you approach the palm-fringed Pacific atoll of Christmas Island there is - at first - that overwhelming tidal wave of preconceptions and misconceptions born of South Pacific and Desert Island Discs. As your boat bumps over the coral reef set in a turquoise sea, lapping gently on to pure white sands, there is the sighting of laughing, brown- skinned girls with long, dark hair dressed in the ridi, a skirt of string-like smoked fibres of coconut leaf, their upper torsos simply ...

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