The South Seas: Collected Writings 1876-1920 edited by C E Bowman

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Signed by editor.

The South Seas is a collection of short fiction and true accounts of life in the South Pacific between the years 1875 and 1920. Writers included in this volume are Mark Twain, W. Somerset Maugham, Louis Becke, John Gibson Paton, Jack London, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

From the notorious 'Bully' Hayes to head-hunting cannibals; from reef-fringed coral atolls to 'White Traders' in fever-ridden archipelagos, these stories open our eyes to the rough and tumble existence of everyday life hidden beneath the facade of what we call 'paradise'.