In the South Seas
a footnote to history
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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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 rewrittento describe the islands and islanders as well as Stevenson's own personal experiences. 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.
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Description and travel, Travel, Scottish Authors, Biography, Journeys, Pacific area, description and travel, Voyages and travels, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Écrivains écossais, Biographies, Descriptions et voyages, Oceania, historyPlaces
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Dans les mers du Sud: récit d'expériences et d'observations faites dans les Îles Marquises, les Pomotou et les Gilbert, au cours de deux croisières sur le yacht "Le Casco" (1888) et le schooner "L'Équateur" / R. L. Stevenson ; traduit de l'anglais par M.-L. des Garets.
1920, Gallimard
in French
2070375110 9782070375110
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In the South Seas: being an account of experiences and observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the course of two cruises, on the yacht "Casco" (1888) and the schooner "Equator" (1889)
1909, C. Scribner
in English
0870229338 9780870229336
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"This edition ... is strictly limited to one thousand and thirty sets for the United States of America, of which one thousand are for sale and thirty are for presentation."
"In the South Seas, being an account of experiences and observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus, and Gilbert Islands in the course of two cruises, on the yacht "Casco" (1888) and the schooner "Equator" (1889)" -- P. [1].
Howard Collection, cabinet no. 27.
Binghamton University has no. 740.
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