Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Willem van de Velde the Elder. Two years in the Marquesas and the Paumotus among people whose world was ending - the copra traders, the missionaries, the tattooing and the dancing. O'Brien was a newspaperman who stayed and wrote the best American book about the South Seas after Melville. Its 55 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.