In the South Seas Hb

ISBN-13: 9780710308085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 368 str.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Opis

This is the story of Stevenson's Pacific travels on the Casco and the Equator. It is a beautifully observed account of island peoples and their life; it is also the story of the beginning of his love affair with the Pacific, and of his growing commitment to the island cause. In the South Seas has been described as the most solid of Stevenson's general writings; it is certainly his least known book as well as a unique gem of Pacific literature, and richly deserves to be rediscovered.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 The Marquesas; Chapter 1 An Island Landfall; Chapter 2 Making Friends; Chapter 3 The Maroon; Chapter 4 Death; Chapter 5 Depopulation; Chapter 6 Chiefs and Tapus; Chapter 7 Hatiheu; Chapter 8 The Port of Entry; Chapter 9 The House of Temoana; Chapter 10 A Portrait and a Story; Chapter 11 Long-Pig—A Cannibal High Place; Chapter 12 The Story of a Plantation; Chapter 13 Characters; Chapter 14 In a Cannibal Valley; Chapter 15 The Two Chiefs of Atuona; Part 2 The Paumotus; Chapter 16 The Dangerous Archipelago—Atolls At a Distance; Chapter 17 Fakarava: An Atoll at Hand; Chapter 18 A House to Let in a Low Island; Chapter 19 Traits and Sects in the Paumotus; Chapter 20 A Paumotuan Funeral; Chapter 21 Graveyard Stories; Part 3 The Gilberts; Chapter 22 Butaritari; Chapter 23 The Four Brothers; Chapter 24 Around Our House; Chapter 25 A Tale of a Tapu; Chapter 26 A Tale of a Tapu—continued; Chapter 27 The Five Days’ Festival; Chapter 28 Husband and Wife; Part 4 The Gilberts—Apemama; Chapter 29 The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader; Chapter 30 The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town; Chapter 31 The King of Apemama: The Palace of Many Women; Chapter 32 The King of Apemama: Equator Town and the Palace; Chapter 33 King and Commons; Chapter 34 The King of Apemama: Devil-Work; Chapter 35 The King of Apemama;

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Robert Louis Stevenson