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Nonfiction · 1896

In the South Seas

Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two Cruises on the Yacht "Casco" (1888) and the Schooner "Equator" (1889)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading time
about 7.5 h
Length
101,977 words · 184 pages
Structure
35 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Part 1 — The Marquesas
  2. Chapter I — An Island Landfall
  3. Chapter II — Making Friends
  4. Chapter III — The Maroon
  5. Chapter IV — Death
  6. Chapter V — Depopulation
  7. Chapter VI — Chiefs and Tapus
  8. Chapter VII — Hatiheu
  9. Chapter VIII — The Port of Entry
  10. Chapter IX — The House of Temoana
  11. Chapter X — A Portrait and a Story
  12. Chapter XI — Long-Pig—A Cannibal High Place
  13. Chapter XII — The Story of a Plantation
  14. Chapter XIII — Characters
  15. Chapter XIV — In a Cannibal Valley
  16. Chapter XV — The Two Chiefs of Atuona
  17. Part II — The Paumotus
  18. Chapter I — The Dangerous Archipelago—Atolls at a Distance
  19. Chapter II — Fakarava: An Atoll at Hand
  20. Chapter III — A House to Let in a Low Island
  21. Chapter IV — Traits and Sects in the Paumotus
  22. Chapter V — A Paumotuan Funeral
  23. Chapter VI — Graveyard Stories
  24. Part III — The Gilberts
  25. Chapter I — Butaritari
  26. Chapter II — The Four Brothers
  27. Chapter III — Around Our House
  28. Chapter IV — A Tale of a Tapu
  29. Chapter V — A TALE OF a TAPU—continued
  30. Chapter VI — The Five Days’ Festival
  31. Chapter VII — Husband and Wife
  32. Part IV — The Gilberts—Apemama
  33. Chapter I — The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader
  34. Chapter II — The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town
  35. Chapter III — The King of Apemama: The Palace of Many Women
  36. Chapter IV — The King of Apemama: Equator Town and the Palace
  37. Chapter V — King and Commons
  38. Chapter VI — The King of Apemama: Devil-Work
  39. Chapter VII — The King of Apemama
  40. Footnotes

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Robert Louis Stevenson

1850–1894 · Victorian

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.

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