Kalle Svensson, a seaman from Udvalle in Sweden, is shipwrecked in the "Feejees". His wits, his skill with a musket and his ambition leads him on a path into the history and folk lore of the island nation of Fiji. Sailor, beachcomber, heathen, mercenary or barbarian; Charlie Savage, as he became known, surely made his impact in Fiji.