They Call Me Ishmael

Set in the South Pacific and based on true events, this is a novel about war, gold, interracial friendship, and the emergence of a new nation.

Growing up in Bougainville, an island archipelago in the South Pacific, Ishmael always wanted to be a soldier. The Crisis—a brutal civil war with Papua New Guinea ignited by the gargantuan Panguna Mine—gives him his chance. As the guerrilla leader of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army, Ishmael secures a peace agreement that provides his islands with ...