A French national who has spent many years in Asia and admiring of the Malay Archipelago has produced this book of photographs of the land, its people and the native sailboats, all captioned in French. The first part of the book contains black-and-white photographs mostly taken in the 1970s and 1980s; the second part of the book features drawings of traditional sailboats that are mostly found in the waters around Sulawesi.