An illustrated collection of true stories from the islands of the Pacific. Topics covered include, buccaneers, fearsome animals, and mysterious skeletons, as well as the realities of life on these tiny coral outcrops.

Table of Contents

Getting there: beneath the black flag; Joyita - voyage to oblivion. Highways of the sea: rendezvous with the Julie London; a strange sale; shark attack; black shark, blue lagoon; groundless reasons; he must have been a bad man; the scourging of Rattus; an explosive situation. Moving on: the fleet that built a city; lost treasure of Suwarrow; Rewa, Queen of the Hauraki; hoisted with his own petard; the last damned pig; legacy of the Spaniards; Epilogue: then again...