survival

Adam Johnson’s epic is a story of power, survival, loss and courage, set in the Polynesia of centuries past.

He doubtless also believed that his government’s survival was in the national interest and made compromises to keep it afloat.

These shifts pose serious risks to their survival—and to the stability of the ecosystems that depend on them.

Later, we find out that he, too, has spent his military career striving to be the best of the best as a survival mechanism.

Each of the book’s seven chapters is titled “The Edge of” something: the known world, knowledge, survival, culture, humanity, boundaries, the universe.