In the South Seas [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Stevenson Robert Louis <1850-1894.>
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| Titolo: |
In the South Seas [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Auckland, : The Floating Press, 1908 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (444 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 919.6 |
| 919.6304 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In the South Seas |
| ISBN: | 1-77556-701-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464370503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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