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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780862416430
Tales from the South Seas comprises The Beach at Falesá, The Bottle Imp, The Wrecker, The Ebb Tide, The Isle of Voices, and Letters, and is introduced by Jenni Calder.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199536085
Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847675224
Driven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the ‘stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes’. Setting his imaginative writings within the social and political contexts of his letters and essays from the South Seas, reveals the deepening and broadening of Stevenson’s genius and his growing awareness of and anger at white exploitation. It was a society in which his love of adventure, his awareness of the extremes of human nature, and his fascination with good and evil, could find full release. Tales of the South Seas gathers together all of Stevenson’s South Sea fiction and a selection of prose and letters provides not only a vivid portrait of a colourful and exotic world, but also a full and rounded picture of a superb writer at the height of his powers.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847678003
Selected and introduced by Jenni Calder. 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.
Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547109327
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Forgotten One, and Other True Tales of the South Seas" by James Norman Hall. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547166214
"South Sea Tales" is a collection of short stories by Jack London, thematically set around the South Pacific. These are the stories of primitive human lusts and hunger, similar to the cold north stories. The stories tell about missionaries and cannibals in Fiji, colonial brutality and race relations in the South Seas, and the issues a human faces in the extreme weather conditions.
Author : Guixing Zhang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231511827
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chinese-Malay youth, the novel recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family, and exemplifies the imaginative range of one of Taiwan's most innovative writers. "There were all sorts of stories about how my younger sister died," Su Qi begins, hinting at the power of memory to bend and refract truth. Yet whichever the real story may be, the fact is that the death of Su Qi's sister created an irrevocable rift in Su Qi's family, driving his father into the arms of aboriginal women and his mother into a world of her own invention. In an effort to escape the oppression of home, Su Qi loses himself in the surrounding jungle, full of Communist guerillas and strange tropical fauna. The jungle further blurs the line between fantasy and reality for Su Qi, until he meets Chunxi, the beautiful, frail daughter of his father's best friend. Chunxi is an oasis of kindness and honesty in an otherwise cruel and evasive world, but after a bizarre accident, Chunxi falls into a deep coma, and Su Qui flees to Taiwan. In college Su Qi meets Keyi, a vivacious siren who helps Su Qi forget not only his violent past but also the colorful tales of his youth. When a family member dies, however, Su Qi is pulled back to the jungles of Borneo where he begins to unravel the secrets of his family's past-a story stranger than any fairy tale-and learns that his cherished dream of awakening his beloved Chunxi may be more than just a fantasy. Influenced by the lyricism of William Faulkner and the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a deeply evocative exploration of sexuality and identity and a masterful reworking of Chinese and Western myth. Valerie Jaffee's careful translation retains all the tone and detail of the original work and provides rare access to a new and exciting generation of Chinese writers born in Southeast Asia.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Polynesia
ISBN : UIUC:30112116674398
Author : James A. Michener,A. Grove Day
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780804151511
In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some overlooked, including Sam Comstock, a mutinous sailor whose delusions of grandeur became a nightmare; Will Mariner, a golden-haired youth who used his charm to win over his captors; and William Bligh, the notorious HMS Bounty captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as. From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in Michener and Day’s capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Rascals in Paradise “The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared in a long time . . . a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on end.”—The New York Times “[Combines] research and scholarship (A. Grove Day was a professor at the University of Hawaii) with a gift for spinning a yarn and depicting character (Michener, journalist and novelist, needs no introduction).”—Kirkus Reviews
Author : Louis Becke
Publisher : Litres
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040618897
"Tom Wallis: A Tale of the South Seas" by Louis Becke. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798489160650
South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship. "South Sea Tales" is a collection of eight fascinating tales of fantasy and adventure in the South Seas. Based on Jack London's own adventures sailing in the South Pacific, "South Sea Tales" includes the following short sotries: The House of Mapuhi, The Whale Tooth, Mauki, "Yah! Yah! Yah!", The Heathen, The Terrible Solomons, The Inevitable White Man, and The Seed of McCoy. Readers of all ages will delight in these tales of nautical adventure.
Author : Dennis M. Powers
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589794481
Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.S. West Coast. This book tells of sailing over the oceans when danger and adventure coexisted every day, tough times, and courageous men in distant places, from the Hawaiian Islands to the Bering Sea. Smell the salt in the air and hear the ocean's rush as the ship sails with hardened men, leaking seams, and shrieking winds.
Author : Jonathan Lamb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226468495
The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. Preserving the Self in the South Seas also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OXFORD:600038756
"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Barbara Lawson
Publisher : McGill Universities Libraries
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018271317
"The focus here is on a collection donated to McGill University's Redpath Museum between 1883 and 1896, consisting of 125 objects from the New Hebrides ... gathered by H.A. Robertson, a member of the Nova Scotian Presbyterian Mission, who resided on the island of Erromanga from 1872 to 1912"--Pref.