In the south seas / / Robert Louis Stevenson
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| Autore: |
Stevenson Robert Louis <1850-1894.>
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| Titolo: |
In the south seas / / Robert Louis Stevenson
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| Pubblicazione: | Auckland : , : The Floating Press, , 1908 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (444 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 919.6 |
| 919.6304 | |
| 919.604 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, Scottish - 19th century |
| East and West | |
| Travelers' writings, American | |
| Travelers' writings, European | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| 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 Hand Chapter 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 Women Chapter 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In the South Seas |
| ISBN: | 1-77556-701-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822990103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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