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This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's revelations are frank and brutally honest. He exposes his own failures and frustrations. He even opens himself up to self rebuke for his taking of a native wife, having a son by her, and then abandoning them both, because he wants to return to civilization and fears they would not fit in.
Along the way, Asterisk describes his life as a surveyor. Once he is caught on a volcanic island that is erupting and is trapped between two streams of lava. He barely makes it out to sea to survive. He also tells of his life as a government translator, a plantation manager, and an owner. Trained as a physician, he further takes note of the diseases among the natives and Europeans, especially dysentery, malaria, and assorted infections and fevers.
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