The second expedition in the South Pacific, in Vanikoro, where La Pérouse was shipwrecked, during a cyclone, one night in 1788, when both ships went down. The aim is to find the "treasure" sought by scientists, their collections, their discoveries. On land, 35 days of excavation are fruitless. It is at sea that "the" discovery is made: the skeleton of a European man aged between 35 and 45. A full-blown investigation begins.
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