Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A Footnote to History
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Author: Joseph FarrellPublisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781848668812
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola. In 1890 Stevenson settled in Upolu, an island in Samoa, after two years sailing round the South Pacific. He was given a Samoan name and became a fierce critic of the interference of Germany, Britain and the U.S.A. in Samoan affairs - a stance that earned him Oscar Wilde's sneers, and brought him into conflict with the Colonial Office, who regarded him as a menace and even threatened him with expulsion from the island. Joseph Farrell's pioneering study of Stevenson's twilight years stands apart from previous biographies by giving as much weight to the Samoa and the Samoans - their culture, their manners, their history - as to the life and work of the man himself. For it is only by examining the full complexity of Samoa and the political situation it faced as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, that Stevenson's lasting and generous contribution to its cause can be appreciated.
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Author: Joseph FarrellPublisher: MacLehose Press
ISBN: 1848668821
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola. In 1890 Stevenson settled in Upolu, an island in Samoa, after two years sailing round the South Pacific. He was given a Samoan name and became a fierce critic of the interference of Germany, Britain and the U.S.A. in Samoan affairs - a stance that earned him Oscar Wilde's sneers, and brought him into conflict with the Colonial Office, who regarded him as a menace and even threatened him with expulsion from the island. Joseph Farrell's pioneering study of Stevenson's twilight years stands apart from previous biographies by giving as much weight to the Samoa and the Samoans - their culture, their manners, their history - as to the life and work of the man himself. For it is only by examining the full complexity of Samoa and the political situation it faced as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, that Stevenson's lasting and generous contribution to its cause can be appreciated.
A Footnote to History
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Samoan Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
South Sea Tales
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199536082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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).
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Author: Richard BermannPublisher: Mutual Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781566477888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: In the South Seas ; Letters from Samoa
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Edinburgh
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: In the South Seas. Letters from Samoa, etc
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
Author: Роберт Льюис СтивенсонPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040853939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description