The 300 islands of the Fiji group, standing at the crossroads of Polynesia and Melanesia, reveal a particularly fascinating record of Western influence both before and after the cession to Queen Victoria in 1874. It is against this historical background - an inexhaustible source of legend, anecdote, fact and comment left behind by the bizarre adventures that the South Sea have always seemed to attract and to which the islanders have added their own robust ingredients - that Jamie Konx-Mawer traces her own travels and encounters during the last 6 years.
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