IN THE SOUTH SEAS
BEING AN ACCOUNT OF EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS IN
THE MARQUESAS, PAUMOTUS AND GILBERT ISLANDS
IN THE COURSE OF TWO CRUISES,
ON THE YACHT 'CASCO' (1888)
& THE SCHOONER 'EQUATOR' (1889)

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD: LONDON
1921

IN THE SOUTH SEAS records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-9. Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled, it was then ambitiously rewritten to describe the islands and islanders as well as Stevenson's own personal experiences. IN THE SOUTH SEAS was published posthumously in 1896. Its combination of personal anecdote and historical account, of autobiography and anthropology, of Stevenson and South Sea Islands, has a particular charm.

19 x 13 cm. vii + 343 pp.

Very good condition. A couple of pages roughly opened and a few spots of foxing to the fore-edge. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper but otherwise very clean and tidy.