In The South Seas

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Penguin UK, Oct 29, 1998 - Travel - 336 pages
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.
 

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
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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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) became a professional writer when he became afflicted with a severe respiratory illness in his early twenties. Many of his works are available in Penguin Classics, including' Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Weir of Hermiston'.
Neil Rennie is a Lecturer in English at UCL, and is currently completing a book about travel writing and the New World for OUP.

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