In the South Seas [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464370503321
• Autore: Stevenson Robert Louis <1850-1894.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Auckland, : The Floating Press, 1908
• ISBN: 1-77556-701-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Disciplina: 919.6; 919.6304
• Soggetti: Authors, Scottish -- 19th century -- Biography; East and West; Oceania -- Civilization -- Foreign influences; Oceania -- Description and travel; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- American; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- European; Oceania -- History -- Sources; Oceania -- Social life and customs; Polynesia -- Description and travel; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Travel -- Polynesia; Travelers' writings, American; Travelers' writings, European; History & Archaeology; Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title; Contents; PART I THE MARQUESAS; Chapter I An Island Landfall; Chapter II Making Friends; Chapter III The Maroon; Chapter IV Death; Chapter V Depopulation; Chapter VI Chiefs and Tapus; Chapter VII Hatiheu; Chapter VIII The Port of Entry; Chapter IX The House of Temoana; Chapter X A Portrait and a Story; Chapter XI Long-Pig-A Cannibal High Place; Chapter XII The Story of a Plantation; Chapter XIII Characters; Chapter XIV In a Cannibal Valley; Chapter XV The Two ; Chiefs of Atuona; PART II THE PAUMOTUS; Chapter I The Dangerous Archipelago-Atolls at a Distance; Chapter II Fakarava: An Atoll at HandChapter III A House to Let in a Low Island; Chapter IV Traits and Sects in the Paumotus; Chapter V A Paumotuan Funeral; Chapter VI Graveyard Stories; PART III THE GILBERTS; Chapter I Butaritari; Chapter II The Four Brothers; Chapter III Around Our House; Chapter IV A Tale of a Tapu; Chapter V A Tale of a Tapu- Continued; Chapter VI The Five Days' Festival; Chapter VII Husband and Wife; PART IV THE GILBERTS- APEMAMA; Chapter I The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader; Chapter II The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town; Chapter III The King of Apemama: The Palace of Many WomenChapter IV The King of Apemama: Equator Town and the Palace; Chapter V King and Commons; Chapter VI The King of Apemama: Devil-Work; Chapter VII The King of Apemama
• Sommario/riassunto: In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific. In his words: ""For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expect. It was suggested that I should try the South Seas; and I was not unwilling to visit like a ghost, and be carried like a bale...