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Robert Louis Stevenson started to write "In the South Seas" in 1889, sailing at the "Equator", during his second cruise on the Pacific. This trip was taken in the company of his wife, Fanny, his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, his mother, Margaret Stevenson (Maggie) and a French nurse on service with the Stevensons, since 1887, Valentine Roch; His purpose was to engage in a serious work about the South Seas, based on his personal experience and on his collection of a lot of informations about the manners and habits os its native inhabitants.
Towards the end of the "Equator" cruise, Stevenson started trying to put together the material he had collected about South Seas culture, language, traditions and society: anthropology, history, sociology together with personal impressions. He had already agreed with S. S. McClure (in 1888) to sell him “letters” from the South Seas to be syndicated in newspapers and magazines. These he hoped to use for materials for the “big book” on the Pacific.
The volume published as In the South Seas was edited by Sidney Colvin and published after Robert Louis Stevenson’s death in 1896.
Many critics recognize "In the South Seas" as the best travel's book published in the 19th Century.
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GenreTravel, History, Psychology
Length10 hrs 43 mins
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Publish dateApr 26, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART 1: The Marquesas
21Chapter IV
2Chapter I
22Chapter V
3Chapter II
23Chapter VI
4Chapter III
24PART III: The Gilberts
5Chapter IV
25Chapter I
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6Chapter V
26Chapter II
7Chapter VI
27Chapter III
8Chapter VII
28Chapter IV
9Chapter VIII
29Chapter V
10Chapter IX
30Chapter VI
11Chapter X
31Chapter VII
12Chapter XI
32PART IV: The Gilberts
13Chapter XII
33Chapter I
14Chapter XIII
34Chapter II
15Chapter XIV
35Chapter III
16Chapter XV
36Chapter IV
17PART II: The Paumotus
37Chapter V
18Chapter I
38Chapter VI
19Chapter II
39Chapter VII
20Chapter III
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