Swept overboard in mid-Pacific, Felix Thurstan and Muriel Ellis drift to the island of Boupari, where the islanders take them for guests from heaven. Enrolled among the gods, they slowly learn the laws of taboo and what fate awaits a divine king. Allen built the plot on Frazer’s The Golden Bough, and his picture of the islanders reflects the colonial attitudes of 1890.
An inventive anthropological adventure from a versatile late-Victorian writer, for readers of Haggard and Stevenson’s South Seas. Download the free EPUB.