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Authors Lance and James Morcan have taken the history of Fiji in the 19th century and created a well-written, totally absorbing novel. American Nathan Johnson, handsome, tough adventurer, comes to Momi Bay in Fiji to trade his muskets for their sea snails that he'll sell for a fortune in China. He meets English missionary Brian Drake and his lovely daughter Susannah who have come to Fiji to educate the natives. Nathan has had women aplenty but he falls for the innocent Susannah who is quite str ...more
Fiji was immediately very readable, written with flair and smoothly intertwining its character plights with the history of missionary efforts, traders, and the Fijian people. While a love story between Nathan, the American trader, and Susannah, the missionary's daughter, dominates the story, the other characters figure with their own plots. Especially, the Fijian characters and their wars, customs, and intrigues spur the story like the setting does. Rambuka the outcast is comprehended in all his
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