Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatu-liva

Release date is 2004-09-01

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"The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas" by George S. Chappell is a travel parody published in 1921 under the pseudonym Walter E. Traprock. The book invents the fictional Fatu-liva bird, supposedly found only in the imaginary "Filbert Islands" of the South Pacific. This creature allegedly lays remarkable cube-shaped eggs with black spots resembling dice. The work includes mock-serious photographs and scientific descriptions that playfully blur the line between genuine travel writing and absurdist humor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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