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Fabled and forbidden, the Marquesas Islands were inhabited by a Polynesian race so frankly erotic, so innocently wanton, that their history has become a symbol of license and pleasure.Set in the lusty early 1800s, it is the story of a marauding Yankee frigate, her puritanical captain, and his unruly crew.Captain David Porter of the Essex has set out on a personal campaign against British whaling vessels in the Pacific. A campaign that brings him to anchor at Nuku Hiva, popular stopping-off place for British whalers, where he plans to capture prisoners - and bounty. What he doesn't realize is that Nuku Hiva is the pleasure island of the Pacific...a paradise to men long at sea, and weary of fighting...