In April 1769, Captain James Cook and his crew on the H.M.S. Endeavour arrived at a small archipelago in the South Pacific that we now know as the Leeward Islands. As British explorers tended to do in ...

Have you ever wondered why French Polynesia has long beguiled writers and artists, explorers and dreamers alike? Among them, one celebrated author spun such captivating tales that they inspired a ...