The Dark River Author:Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall A thundering tale of adventure, love, mystery, and danger in the South Seas - by the authors of Mutiny on the Bounty. ***Vaihiva - Valley of the Dark River...a remote part of Tahiti - beautiful, exotic, mysterious, where ancient legends, gods and ghosts still linger. ***Alan Hardie - came to Vaihiva to build a new life - but the destiny wa... more »iting for him by the Dark River was strange beyond imagining. ***Naia - grew up in the lush tropical beauty of Vaihiva, raised to be a tribal princess...but her love for Alan changed her life in wonderful and terrible ways.« less