The Mal'lam Voyagers is an outstanding new saga of the Polynesian Pacific that rivals Michener; destined to become a classic of Oceanic literature.

A huge book in every way; 706 pages, 277,600 words, 36 hand-drawn illustrations by the author, Oregon ex-patriot Jim Leslie's triumph is available here in the original 7"x10" hardcase collector's edition.

This is the story of an ancient sea-faring people who explored and settled the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean before the Polynesians existed as a culture.

Fleeing aggressive and avaricious invaders in the second millennium B.C., in what is now called Southeast Asia, their ancestors began to move ever south and eastward to find a new homeland. For three hundred years they found respite in a kindly archipelago just north of the Equator.

But then geological forces made these islands uninhabitable and again the Mal’lam became vagabonds upon the great ocean....