Numerous Polynesian legends slept between the pages of ethnology or folklore books, like flowers between the pages of a herbarium. An inhabitant of Easter Island, Céline Ripoll was able to access the sources and collect some of these stories that she still lives from the mouth of the Elders, hear their breath, their songs, catch the warrior's malice or determination in the eyes. Rich in this material, the author wanted to restore color and poetry to little-known, if not unpublished, legends, alongside others strangely similar to some of our European legends. The Tales of the Wise Men of Polynesia celebrate with subtlety and humor the wisdoms of New Zealand, the Marquesas Islands, Easter Island, the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti, Bora-Bora, to offer the reader a sort of "translation", a first door to this world, perhaps easier to open for those who ignore the codes or terms, and who often see only wonderful landscapes.