368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2005. In the South Seas is the story of Louis's travels through the Pacificon the Casco and later on the schooner Equator. It is a beautifully observed account of island peoples and their life, but above all it is the story of the beginning of Louis's love affair with the Pacific.
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
