In the South Seas / R.L. Stevenson ; edited with an introduction and notes by Neil Rennie.
"[This] records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-1889. Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled, it was then ambitiously rewritten to describe the islands and islanders as well as...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
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1998.
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| Series: | Penguin classics.
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| Online Access: | EBSCO eBooks |
| Summary: | "[This] records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-1889. Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled, it was then ambitiously rewritten to describe the islands and islanders as well as Stevenson's own personal experiences. These revisions continued when Stevenson settled on the Samoan island where he died in 1894, and 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"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1896. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 1 unnumbered pages, 283 pages) : map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0140434364 9780140434361 |