In The South Seas: Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two Cruises on the Yacht Casco (1888) and the schooner ‘Equator’ (1889). A New Impression.
by STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS:
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IN THE SOUTH SEAS records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-9. Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled, it was then ambitiously rewrittento describe the islands and islanders as well as Stevenson's own personal experiences. IN THE SOUTH SEAS was published posthumously in 1896. Its combination of personal anecdote and historical account, of autobiography and anthropology, of Stevenson and South Sea Islands, has a particular charm.
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- In The South Seas: Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two Cruises on the Yacht Casco (1888) and the schooner ‘Equator’ (1889). A New Impression.
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- STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS:
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- Hardcover
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- Chatto & Windus 1921 repr.
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- Literature Robert Louis Stevenson, Literature, south seas, cruise, Marquesas, Paumotus island, Gilbert Island, casquo, equator,
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