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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18
This volume focuses on Stevenson's experiences and observations during his voyages in the South Seas, particularly exploring the Marquesas, Paumotus, and Gilbert Islands.
"The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18" by Stevenson is a travel narrative. This volume focuses on Stevenson's experiences and observations during his voyages in the South Seas, particularly exploring the Marquesas, Paumotus, and Gilbert Islands.
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The impediment of tongues was one that I particularly over-estimated. The languages of Polynesia are easy to smatter, though hard to speak with elegance. And they are extremely similar, so that a person who has a tincture of one or two may risk, not without hope, an attempt upon the others.
And again, not only is Polynesian easy to smatter, but interpreters abound. Missionaries, traders, and broken white folk living on the bounty of the natives, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have often scraped up a little English, and in the French zone (though far less commonly) a little French-English, or an efficient pidgin, what is called to the westward “Beach-la-Mar,” comes easy to the Polynesian; it is now taught, besides, in the schools of Hawaii; and from the multiplicity of British ships, and the nearness of the States on the one hand and the colonies on the other, it may be called, and will almost certainly become, the tongue of the Pacific.
Contents
- 01Editorial Note
- 02Part I
- 03The Marquesas
- 04In the South Seas
- 05Chapter I
- 06Chapter II
- 07Chapter III
- 08Chapter IV
- 09Chapter V
- 10Chapter VI
- 11Chapter VII
- 12Chapter VIII
- 13Chapter IX
- 14Chapter X
- 15Chapter XI
- 16Chapter XII
- 17Chapter XIII
- 18Chapter XIV
- 19Chapter XV
- 20Part II
- 21The Paumotus
- 22Chapter I
- 23Chapter II
- 24Chapter III
- 25Chapter IV
- 26Chapter V
- 27Chapter VI
- 28Part III
- 29The Eight Islands
- 30Chapter I
- 31Chapter II
- 32Chapter III
- 33Chapter IV
- 34Chapter V
- 35Part IV
- 36The Gilberts
- 37Chapter I
- 38Chapter II
- 39Chapter III
- 40Chapter IV
- 41Chapter V
- 42Chapter VI
- 43Chapter VII
- 44Part V
- 45The Gilberts—Apemama
- 46Chapter I
- 47Chapter II
- 48Chapter III
- 49Chapter IV
- 50Chapter V
- 51Chapter VI
- 52Chapter VII
- 53Letters from Samoa
- 54Letters to the “Times,” “Pall Mall Gazette,” Etc.
- 55Letters to Young People
About this edition
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 470 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers