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In 1975, a professor turns a graduate student loose to roam Indonesia to track down lost manuscripts of a Eurasian poet and veteran of the British Invasion of Java, August, 1811.

As graduate student Desmond Javaleine, learns more about the corsair-scholar-poet, Alsandair I Dewa Deverell he becomes obsessively immersed those fragments extant, of his polylingual but incomprehensible writings, Professor Marcellanus Serrulaz encourages his student to journey to Singapore, and Indonesia, to see what he can learn. His arduous, multi-year efforts are ultimately so successful that student becomes master. The research journey of Desmond Javaleine leads to an uncanny landmark on Waigeo Island, in the Rajah Ampats, near New Guinea. Professor Serrulaz, meanwhile, apprehending his having been passed by, takes a dark turn. The question whether anyone can understand the writings of Deverell, and whether or not they had extraterrestrial influence, remains a constant.