Robert Louis Stevenson

In The South Seas Hb (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136189623
• Artikelnr.: 39448753

Autorenporträt

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inhaltsangabe

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