In The South SeasIN 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. |
Contents
NOTE ON THE TEXT | |
FURTHER READING MAP IN THE SOUTH SEAS | |
THE MARQUESAS I An Island Landfall | |
Making Friends | |
The Maroon | |
Death | |
A House to Let in a Low Island | |
Traits and Sects in the Paumotus | |
A Paumotuan Funeral | |
Graveyard Stories | |
THE GILBERTS I Butaritari | |
The Four Brothers | |
Around Our House | |
A Tale of a Tapu | |
Depopulation | |
Chiefs and Tapus | |
Hatiheu | |
The Port of Entry | |
The House of Temoana | |
A Portrait and a Story | |
LongPig A Cannibal High Place | |
The Story of a Plantation | |
Characters | |
In a Cannibal Valley | |
The Two Chiefs of Atuona | |
THE PAUMOTUS I The Dangerous Archipelago Atolls at a Distance | |
An Atoll at Hand | |
A Tale of a Tapu continued | |
The Five Days Festival | |
Husband and Wife | |
THE GILBERTS APEMAMA I The King of Apemama The Royal Trader | |
Foundation of Equator Town | |
The Palace of Many Women | |
Equator Town and the Palace V King and Commons | |
DevilWork | |
The King of Apemama | |
NOTES | |
EMENDATIONS | |
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