The Navigator.

8vo., 303 pages, marbled endpapers, all edges blocked in gilt, professionally bound in half red morocco over red boards (which are slightly mottled), spine gilt decorated in compartments with raised bands, by the world renowned bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London with their stamp to verso front endpaper. A fine clean copy with just some light mottlng to the boards. Son of a Norwegian master-mariner and grandson of Kaloni, the last of the great Polynesian navigators, Gunnar Thorkild is a man consumed by a dream. Convinced that the Polynesians' legendary Island of the Dead is real, he risks his career, his life-and those of his fellow adventurers-to find it. Shipwrecked on the very island they seek, the castaways are forced to leave behind everything they know and rely upon. To survive in this lush tropical paradise, they must make new laws of power and property, of sex and marriage. The Navigator is a gripping tale of sea lore, shipwreck and moral courage.