This novel is a vehicle for stories of sailor, whalers, explorers and missionaries and the discoveries of anthropologists, scholars and one ethnohistorian using a Marquesan, a turn of the century island doctor, and the doctor's grandson who is the connecting thread, as main characters It is and exploration of the history of the Pacific Islands from 1000 BC to the first European contact to the 1950's.
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