In Island his last novel Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where for 120 years an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators a newspaperman named Faranby is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn''t expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values andto his amazementgive him hope.