Table of Contents
Author's Note ix
Cast of Characters xi
Maps xvi
1 Turn On the Quiet 1
2 The Strangest Hello 5
3 Artocarpus Incisa 18
4 Discovery in the Age of the Superstore 32
5 A Score of Worlds 36
6 The Three Legs of Man 50
7 The Last Grande Dame of Tahiti 72
8 Mutiny on the Bounty 84
9 The Backwater Emissary 92
10 The Geometry of Solitude 105
11 The Fallout Zone 114
12 The Quiet 121
13 The Museum People 138
14 The Devil's Workshop 153
15 Pandora's Box 163
16 Dreadfruit 175
17 Portrait of a Family 184
18 Hunting Pigs 191
19 An Eye for an Eye 199
20 A Spider's Progress 207
21 The Book of Fear 215
22 Down Rope 223
23 Time, Chance, and Death 231
24 Far from Help 239
25 Bury the Hatchet 248
26 Children of Castaways 254
27 The Strangest Bonjour 259
28 Austerity 263
Epilogue: Turn Off the Quiet 271
Acknowledgments 279
Notes on References 281
Select Bibliography 301
Index 309