In The South Seas

Nov 24, 2025 10:19 PM

Author:Neil Rennie,Robert Louis Stevenson

In The South Seas

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 rewrittento 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.

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Only Ben Elton could combine uncomfortable questions about gender politics with a gripping, page-turning narrative and jokes that make you laugh out loud

—— Tony Parsons, author of Man and Boy

Elton at his most outrageously entertaining

—— Cosmopolitan

The action is tight and well-plotted, the dialogue is punchy, and the whole thing rolls along so nicely

—— Guardian

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Moving and intelligent

—— Independent

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—— Cosmopolitan

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—— Sunday Telegraph

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