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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. 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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781647992590 |
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Publisher: | Bibliotech Press |
Publication date: | 03/03/2020 |
Pages: | 230 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d) |
About the Author
Robert Louis Stevenson (eigentlich Robert Levis Balfour Stevenson) wurde am 13.11.1850 in Edinburgh geboren. Der Vater war Leuchtturmbaumeister, das wollte auch der Sohn werden. Er hatte jedoch ein Lungenleiden und studierte daher Jura von 1871-1875. Er arbeitete jedoch nicht als Rechtsanwalt sondern wurde freier Schriftsteller, vergeblich ein Klima suchend, das sein Lungenleiden heilte. Seit 1888 lebte er auf Samoa, wo er bei den Eingeborenen in hohem Ansehen stand. Er starb am 03.12.1894 im Haus Vailima bei Apia (Westsamoa).
Date of Birth:
November 13, 1850Date of Death:
December 3, 1894Place of Birth:
Edinburgh, ScotlandPlace of Death:
Vailima, SamoaEducation:
Edinburgh University, 1875Table of Contents
Acknowledgements | vii | |
Introduction | viii | |
Note on the Text | xxxvi | |
Further Reading | xxxvii | |
Map | xl | |
In the South Seas | ||
Part I | The Marquesas | |
I. | An Island Landfall | 5 |
II. | Making Friends | 10 |
III. | The Maroon | 17 |
IV. | Death | 23 |
V. | Depopulation | 29 |
VI. | Chiefs and Tapus | 36 |
VII. | Hatiheu | 43 |
VIII. | The Port of Entry | 49 |
IX. | The House of Temoana | 55 |
X. | A Portrait and a Story | 62 |
XI. | Long-Pig - A Cannibal High Place | 68 |
XII. | The Story of a Plantation | 77 |
XIII. | Characters | 85 |
XIV. | In a Cannibal Valley | 91 |
XV. | The Two Chiefs of Atuona | 97 |
Part II | The Paumotus | |
I. | The Dangerous Archipelago - Atolls at a Distance | 107 |
II. | Fakarava: An Atoll at Hand | 113 |
III. | A House to Let in a Low Island | 120 |
IV. | Traits and Sects in the Paumotus | 127 |
V. | A Paumotuan Funeral | 136 |
VI. | Graveyard Stories | 139 |
Part III | The Gilberts | |
I. | Butaritari | 155 |
II. | The Four Brothers | 160 |
III. | Around Our House | 166 |
IV. | A Tale of a Tapu | 174 |
V. | A Tale of a Tapu - continued | 180 |
VI. | The Five Days' Festival | 189 |
VII. | Husband and Wife | 199 |
Part IV | The Gilberts - Apemama | |
I. | The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader | 209 |
II. | The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town | 215 |
III. | The King of Apemama: The Palace of Many Women | 222 |
IV. | The King of Apemama: Equator Town and the Palace | 228 |
V. | King and Commons | 234 |
VI. | The King of Apemama: Devil-Work | 242 |
VII. | The King of Apemama | 252 |
Notes | 258 | |
Emendations | 283 |
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