In the South Seas.
Title:
In the South Seas.
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
ISBN:
9781775567011
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (444 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- PART I THE MARQUESAS -- Chapter I An Island Landfall -- Chapter II Making Friends -- Chapter III The Maroon -- Chapter IV Death -- Chapter V Depopulation -- Chapter VI Chiefs and Tapus -- Chapter VII Hatiheu -- Chapter VIII The Port of Entry -- Chapter IX The House of Temoana -- Chapter X A Portrait and a Story -- Chapter XI Long-Pig-A Cannibal High Place -- Chapter XII The Story of a Plantation -- Chapter XIII Characters -- Chapter XIV In a Cannibal Valley -- Chapter XV The Two Chiefs of Atuona -- PART II THE PAUMOTUS -- Chapter I The Dangerous Archipelago-Atolls at a Distance -- Chapter II Fakarava: An Atoll at Hand -- Chapter III A House to Let in a Low Island -- Chapter IV Traits and Sects in the Paumotus -- Chapter V A Paumotuan Funeral -- Chapter VI Graveyard Stories -- PART III THE GILBERTS -- Chapter I Butaritari -- Chapter II The Four Brothers -- Chapter III Around Our House -- Chapter IV A Tale of a Tapu -- Chapter V A Tale of a Tapu- Continued -- Chapter VI The Five Days' Festival -- Chapter VII Husband and Wife -- PART IV THE GILBERTS- APEMAMA -- Chapter I The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader -- Chapter II The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town -- Chapter III The King of Apemama: The Palace of Many Women -- Chapter IV The King of Apemama: Equator Town and the Palace -- Chapter V King and Commons -- Chapter VI The King of Apemama: Devil-Work -- Chapter VII The King of Apemama.
Abstract:
In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific. In his words: "For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expect. It was suggested that I should try the South Seas; and I was not unwilling to visit like a ghost, and be carried like a bale...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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