It lives in the hole where the moon used to be. And for most of the worst part of the northern winter, over the last two decades, so have we. The real South Pacific was not a Bali Hai musical, but a drama of cannibals and castaways, headhunters and slavers, paradise and perdition. This is a book of saline psalms. This is water.

8. 1513- Balboa
discovers the
‘Southern Sea’

9. 1651-Thomas Hobbes, the
social contractor, insisted
that the Natural Condition of
Mankind in nature is
inherently evil, and must
cede rights to government as
the price of peace
The life of man is solitary,
poor, nasty, brutish, and
short

10. 1704- Alexander
Selkirk castaway on
Juan Fernández
1709- Selkirk rescued
1719- Daniel Defoe
publishes
Robinson Crusoe

11. 1754- JJ Rousseau's Noble
Savage
Man in a State of Nature,
barefoot and uneducated, is
of the very best society
Man was born free, and he
is everywhere in chains

12. 1767- Samuel Wallis’ Dolphin enters Matavai Bay1767- Samuel Wallis’ Dolphin enters Matavai Bay

13. 1768- The deprived sailors on Bougainville’s Boudeuse
watch a smiling Tahitian girl climb onto their quarterdeck,
and drop her pareu like a gauntlet

14. 1769- Cook’s Endeavour arrives to follow the
Transit of Venus; his crew’s endeavour’s are
similarly focused

15. 1788- The history of ships and Shangri-la
culminate in the arrival of Bligh’s Bounty

17. 1791- Edward’s Pandora pursues the Bounty
mutineers.

18. Paradise is too perfect for Humanity

28. And the gifts we brought them?

47. There is Only One
It lives in the hole where
the moon used to be. And
for most of the worst part
of the northern winter, over
the last two decades, so
have we.
The real South Pacific was
not a Bali Hai musical, but a
drama of cannibals and
castaways, headhunters and
slavers, paradise and
perdition.
This is a book of saline
psalms. This is water.

48. The Author
Lawrence Winkler is an ancient
physician and phenomenologist,
traveler, mushroom forager, and
natural philosopher. As a young
man, he hitchhiked around the
world, for five transformative
years.
His middle age is morphing from
medicine to manuscript. He has a
passion for habitat protection,
including the (hopefully) final
repairs on a leaky roof. Westwood
Lake Chronicles was his first book.
He lives on Vancouver Island with
Robyn, tending their garden and
vineyard, and dreams.