Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage

William F. Buckley, JR.. Little Brown and Company, $10.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-316-11448-6

Buckley and his companions sail the Pacific, from Honolulu to Kavieng, New Ireland, on a 30-day cruise, for which the world's consummate sybarite packed 25 cases of vintage wine and untold quantities of peanut butter. ``Buckley fans will have as good a time as he did,'' commented PW. Photos. (June)

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