In the South Seas: Marquesas, Paumatus and Gilbert Islands (Hogarth travel)

by RobertLouisStevenson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1987

  $20.02

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $7.27

  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 rewritten to 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.