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Tales of the South Seas / Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited and introduced by Jenni Calder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Series:
- Canongate classics ; 72.
- Canongate classics ; 72
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. 1996
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894--Travel--Oceania.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Travel.
- Oceania.
- Authors, Scottish--19th century--Travel--Oceania.
- Authors, Scottish.
- Oceania--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 1996.
- Summary:
- Robert Louis Stevenson spent the last seven years of his life traveling in the U.S. and the South Seas, finally settling on the island of Upolu in Samoa. It was here that some of his most famous novels were written. This volume's selection of prose and letters provide not only a vivid portrait of an exotic world, but also a full and rounded picture of a superb writer at the height of his powers.
- Contents:
- Island landfalls
- The ebb-tide
- The wrecker.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0862416434
- OCLC:
- 36408792
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