Gerald was only 19 when he entered the Peace Corps in 1967 after two years as a literature student at Albion College. After graduation he returned to the Marshall Islands with a love for literature and an interest in transcribing the stories he had heard in previous years. He taught for a year and worked as a commercial fisherman for two, honing his knowledge of the language and culture. Then he went for an uninterrupted four year stay on remote Rongelap Atoll to study with the renown traditional navigators and storytellers there. In 1979 he attended a one-year apprentice program at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu to prepare as Director of the Alele Museum and National Archive. He held that position for ten years culminating in a two-year collaboration with the Field Museum of Natural History on their permanent “Traveling the Pacific” exhibit that features a donated traditional outrigger canoe.
The Legend Is Born is a free prequel to the trilogy The Legends of Lainjin.
The Legend Is Born: The Legends of Lainjin, Book Three
by Gerald R. Knight
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Helkena, a young untattooed woman, having survived a typhoon caring for the young child Ḷainjin must now travel to Naṃdik. Her goal is to get her tattoos there and, in time, to find a man to take home to Wōtto. But will she entice a man from the lush south to her barren wind-swept island in the northern part of the island chain?
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Man Shark: The Legends of Lainjin, Book One
by Gerald R. Knight
Genre: Mythology & Folk Tales | Fantasy
Returning from his epic search for his mother, the hardened seafarer Ḷainjin meets Liṃanṃan at sea prior to a storm that shall forever intertwine their lives. She captivates his attention, but once ashore, can he resist the enticements of Likkōkālọk her matrilineal cousin and heir apparent to her father’s atoll?
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The Forbidden Man: The Legends of Lainjin, Book Two
by Gerald R. Knight
Genre: Mythology & Folk Tales | Fantasy
The prequel to Man Shark, this is the story of Lainjin’s outrigger search for his mother. The Pacific is an enormous expanse; how is he to find her amid all the possibilities? His outrigger search leads him to Pohnpei and the famous stone village of Nan Madol, where he faces distractions but is befriended by survivors of her lost fleet.
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