“I’ve been offered a job in Samoa,” Dean excitedly said, as he returned home from work one day. “Do you think you’d like to go there and live for a couple of years?” Both of us were always up for an ...

Of the 12 islands that make up Samoa, four are inhabited. Most of the population — roughly 195,000 people — live on the two largest islands, Savai'i and Upolu. The latter is the most populous and ...