Category:
Historical Fiction
Regular worth:
$0.99
Deal worth:
Free
Deal begins:
January 18, 2023
Deal ends:
January 28, 2023
This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a younger, nonetheless untattooed lady enduring a storm crashing over the one island she has ever identified. Her house is W?tto, one of many dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The new child toddler ?ainjin has simply been entrusted to her care by his mom, who has sailed her fleet of proas into the open ocean to avoid wasting them from sure destruction.
Helkena, having barely survived the storm, should now journey to Na?dik, a moist atoll within the southern rain belt of the R?lik Chain. As ?ainjin’s surrogate mom, she’s going to sail with the toddler by outrigger canoe within the firm of his maternal grandfathers. These sort males had not too long ago helped the W?tto Islanders overcome the horrible drought that sometimes follows a storm. With the trade-wind season approaching, it’s quickly time to finish their voyage. The grandfathers start educating Helkena the standard navigational arts alongside the way in which.
Her objective is to get her tattoos on Na?dik and, in time, to discover a man there to take house to W?tto. But will she entice a person from the luxurious south to her barren desert island?
Far from being a easy story, this colourful, romantic story presents a stunning background to the lovemaking tradition of the Marshall Islands. It additionally reveals the early years of younger ?ainjin, the hero of the Legends of ?ainjin historic literary fiction collection
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