After weeks among barren reefs and tense island encounters, the crew of the Resolution longs for healing. For Georg Forster, struck down by a gall illness, the sight of Tahiti on the horizon is more than a return—it's salvation.
After months of frost and famine, the HMS Resolution anchors off Tahuata in the Marquesas Islands—where warriors are tattooed head to toe, women vanish into the hills, and a king wears barkcloth and a feathered crown. His name is Honu—turtle—and his island offers peace after death.