Lonely hero Hefin gets posted to an isolationist country in the North Pacific with draconian laws and a complex character-based language. What are his chances of finding true love in this improbable place?

The book is part novel, part diary, part fictional travelogue with over 100 illustrations of assorted kinds and is easy to read.

Get The Empire of Ungthumah – Five Years in the Far Out to go on Hefin’s journey with him and see whether you’d fall in love with Ungthumah yourself or whether the language and the culture would defeat you.