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Lately had a bit of an obsession with adventure / sailing / exploring genre of books. Stumbled upon this one at the discount bookstore the other day and decided to pick it up. Actually havn't finished it yet but amazing story. It's written a bit with hisotrical accounts where as I prefer books written more as a story but well written and still easy to read. Amazing so far, blowing through it. Figured some others may like it as well.

In 1868, Jack Renton, a teenage Scots sailor, was shanghaied in San Francisco. In 1876, he was rescued from captivity on the Pacific island of Malaita, home to a fearsome tribe of headhunters. After the rescue, in a sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore at Malaita, was stripped of his clothes, possessions and his very identity, but lived to serve the island's tribal chief Kabou eventually as his most trusted adviser.

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