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Title: Island Landfalls
Condition: New
Subtitle: Reflections from the South Seas
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Contributor: Jenni Calder (Introduction by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0862411440
EAN: 9780862411442
ISBN: 9780862411442
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction
Release Date: 01/07/2010
Description:

Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have been happier to see him purely as a spinner of the picturesque, but Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the 'stir-about of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilizations, virtues and crimes'.

This collection sets three of his imaginative works -The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices, and The Beach of Falesa - within the social and political contexts of Stevenson's letters and essays from the South Seas. Island ambience, the clash of cultures, moral ambiguities, all are there, and so too is Stevenson's swift narrative control, giving a true modernity to his prose.

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