Per the back of the book:
Captain David O'keefe, King of Yap, Monarch of Mapia, and Sovereign of Sonsorol, was a world-celebrated legend in his own lifetime. Here is the extraordinary true story of an Irish-American sailing captain who for thirty years ruled a private empire in the South Seas, a story as fantastic and colorful as any novelist could invent. Vivid in its picture of Pacific customs, it is also filled with the oddity and drama of O'Keefe's career. It includes a host of other major characters whose adventures are part of the history of the South Pacific, including:
Bully Hayes, freebooter and blackbirder, sought by the navies of half a dozen Pacific powers for his lawless acts of murder, rape, and robbery, who was finally humbled by a thrashing at the hands of King O'Keefe.
Otto Freelander, ruthless and cunning German agent who met with his first failure when he attempted to break O'Keefe.
King Harris of Nauru, an Australian fugitive whose lovely halfcaste daughter O'Keefe married and took to Yap.
Kakofel, lusty daughter of a Yap chieftain who dared to break the strongest of native taboos in order to be in the arms of O'Keefe.
Don Henrique Caprilez y Ossuna, Spanish Governor of Yap who surrendered his sword to O'Keefe when he learned the results of the Spanish-American War.
Captain Duncan McRae, ruthless king of the pearl traders, whose word was the law in the Spice Islands.
Fatumak, Yap's most powerful medicine man whose power grew with O'Keefe's and who, on his deathbed, predicted O'Keefe's.
Captain David O'keefe, King of Yap, Monarch of Mapia, and Sovereign of Sonsorol, was a world-celebrated legend in his own lifetime. Here is the extraordinary true story of an Irish-American sailing captain who for thirty years ruled a private empire in the South Seas, a story as fantastic and colorful as any novelist could invent. Vivid in its picture of Pacific customs, it is also filled with the oddity and drama of O'Keefe's career. It includes a host of other major characters whose adventures are part of the history of the South Pacific, including:
Bully Hayes, freebooter and blackbirder, sought by the navies of half a dozen Pacific powers for his lawless acts of murder, rape, and robbery, who was finally humbled by a thrashing at the hands of King O'Keefe.
Otto Freelander, ruthless and cunning German agent who met with his first failure when he attempted to break O'Keefe.
King Harris of Nauru, an Australian fugitive whose lovely halfcaste daughter O'Keefe married and took to Yap.
Kakofel, lusty daughter of a Yap chieftain who dared to break the strongest of native taboos in order to be in the arms of O'Keefe.
Don Henrique Caprilez y Ossuna, Spanish Governor of Yap who surrendered his sword to O'Keefe when he learned the results of the Spanish-American War.
Captain Duncan McRae, ruthless king of the pearl traders, whose word was the law in the Spice Islands.
Fatumak, Yap's most powerful medicine man whose power grew with O'Keefe's and who, on his deathbed, predicted O'Keefe's.
