Voyage 8 is one of the best voyage I have read thus far. It provides crucial elements to a story that makes a great story and keeps the attention of readers. It starts with a goose named Onk-or and develops it with his flock and how intelligent they are. The detail in which James Michener explained the life of a gosling to its death is very vivid and insightful showing off how much he knows and understands about this great bird. He setup this voyage beginning with the story of the goose juxtaposed to the more serious story of the humans, of Susan Steed affair with Matt Turlock, and Paul Steed's affair with his slave Eden.

It is interesting how Michener can setup the story of the goose, because within it there is parallelism. At the beginning it explains how Onk-or and his family are hunted by arctic foxes...