In the South Seas

Name: In the South Seas
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ISBN: 9780140434361

ISBN-10: 0140434364

ISBN-13: 9780140434361

Edition: 1998

Authors: Robert Louis Stevenson, Neil Rennie, Robert Louis Stevenson, Neil Rennie, Neil Rennie

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Description:

Originally written as a series of sketches for an American magazine, this is Stevenson's record of the first year he and his family spent travelling around the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbers.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Note on the Text


Further Reading


Map


In the South Seas



The Marquesas



An Island Landfall



Making Friends



The Maroon



Death



Depopulation



Chiefs and Tapus



Hatiheu



The Port of Entry



The House of Temoana



A Portrait and a Story



Long-Pig - A Cannibal High Place



The Story of a Plantation



Characters



In a Cannibal Valley



The Two Chiefs of Atuona



The Paumotus



The Dangerous Archipelago - Atolls at a Distance



Fakarava: An Atoll at Hand



A House to Let in a Low Island



Traits and Sects in the Paumotus



A Paumotuan Funeral



Graveyard Stories



The Gilberts



Butaritari



The Four Brothers



Around Our House



A Tale of a Tapu



A Tale of a Tapu - continued



The Five Days' Festival



Husband and Wife



The Gilberts - Apemama



The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader



The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town



The King of Apemama: The Palace of Many Women



The King of Apemama: Equator Town and the Palace



King and Commons



The King of Apemama: Devil-Work



The King of Apemama


Notes


Emendations