num_pages: 352
description: Gavin Bell, for many years an admirer of Stevenson and his work, retraces Stevenson's passage through the more remote communities of French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati and Samoa. On his tour through Polynesia and Micronesia he finds haunting echoes of a fading culture which enchanted Stevenson and in Hawaii finds a man who possesses one of the finest private Stevenson collections.
language: English
title: In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific After Robert Louis Stevenson
titlecomplete: In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific After Robert Louis Stevenson
genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Biography, History
ratings_count: 22
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd