The woman died shortly after Christmas hitting Arne hard with the finality of such loss. The awful belief that he would never see or hear this person again, ever. He would become less affected by death again but it would take a long time and a high price in soul searching. More importantly perhaps, it was the first incident to really make him think deeply on the purpose of life and come to the initially depressing conclusion that there was none.' Set against the background of a small English port and the plantations of German New Guinea between the 1880s and the early 1930s this is the story...