A fascinating account of the first foreigner ever to live on Tongareva (or Penrhyn Island). Enmeshed in tribal wars, struggling to understand - and survive - in a culture that was radically different from his own, this classic record gives insights into both the people of Tongareva and their foreign 'guest', as well as into culture contact 'in the raw'.
Originally published by Hurst and Blackett Publishers of London in 1867, it was compiled from rough notes of a journal written during the authors wanderings in the Islands of the South Pacific.
