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.

2. Geography determines climate; climate determines culture

3. Which island(s) you do first think of,
when you think of Paradise?

8. 1513- Balboa
discovers the
‘Southern Sea’

9. 1651-Thomas Hobbes-
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- 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.

31. We brought them gifts too.

53. Vanuatu Flying Fox
Pteropus anetianus
Flaengfokis
Kava
Piper methysticum
Kava

67. And Now There is Another
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.

68. Somewhere beyond the Salish Sea
lived the Stout Men who did the
Megin River, and Tibet, and the
Amazon. There was Tictac and
Poldy, Cliffy and Madame, Captain
and Gung, and Papa Smurf, who
would die someday, but not yet.
These are the stories of where they
rushed headlong, towards
adventure and suffering, and how
it all took place.

69. The Author
Lawrence Winkler is an
ancient physician, traveler, and
natural philosopher.
His molecules are migrating from
medicine to manuscript.
From compassion to passion, to
view and document the world
around him, in all its beauty
and complexity.
He lives on Vancouver Island with
Robyn, tending their gardens
and vineyards, and dreams.