Treasured Islands: Cruising the South Seas With Robert Louis Stevenson

by Lowell D. Holmes

Overview

Not only the British writer himself, already famous for novels and poems, but his family with him took to the sea between 1888 and 1890 to search Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia for Robert's health and adventure. Writer and film maker Holmes (emeritus anthropology, Wichita State U. Kansas) has also produced a documentary about the voyages.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574091304
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/2001
Series:	Travel and Adventure Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
1	The casco - A Schooner to Paradise	1
2	The Marquesas - The Land of Men	31
3	The Tuamotus - The Dangerous Desert Islands	67
4	Tahiti - The Pearl of the Pacific	85
5	Hawaii - Crossroads of the Pacific	107
6	The equator Chronicle - Copra and Kings	143
7	Samoa - Down Payment on a Dream	171
8	The janet nicoll - The Jumping Jenny Adventure	189
9	Vailima - Home is the Sailor, Home from the Sea	227
	Epilogue	247
	Bibliography	269
	Index	277

Editorial Reviews

...a 'must' for admirers of Robert Louis Stevenson's literary works.

Midwest Book Review

...an intriguing, thoroughly researched account of Stevenson's Pacific wanderings...a delightful literary voyage.

Sailing

He latches on to the significance of Stevenson's South Seas writings and lets them guide his course.

Wichita Eagle

...you can almost feel the motion of the deck as you read this well written account.

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