Island Landfalls : Reflections from the South Seas / by Robert Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Robert.

Contributor:

Calder, Jenni, Contributor.

Series:

Canongate Classics

Canongate classics Island landfalls

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894--Travel--Oceania.

Stevenson, Robert Louis.

Scots--History--19th century--Oceania.

Scots.

Oceania--Description and travel.

Oceania.

Oceania--Fiction.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection sets three of his imaginative works -The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices, and The Beach of Falesa - within the social and political contexts of Stevenson's letters and essays from the South Seas.

Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have been happier to see him purely as a spinner of the picturesque, but Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the 'stir-about of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilizations, virtues and crimes'. This collection sets three of his imaginative works -The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices, and The Beach of Falesa - within the social and political contexts of Stevenson's letters and essays from the South Seas. Island ambience, the clash of cultures, moral ambiguities, all are there, and so too is Stevenson's swift narrative control, giving a true modernity to his prose.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Letters

In the South Seas

Fiction

About the Author

Copyright.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781847678003

1847678009

OCLC:

1255235904