Bad colonists
Subtitle: the South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
By: Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves.
Contributors: Walker, Vernon Lee.; Becke, Louis, 1855-1913.; Thomas, Nicholas, 1960-; Eves, Richard.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Walker, Vernon Lee -- Homes and haunts -- Oceania.; Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 -- Homes and haunts -- Oceania.; Oceania -- History -- Sources.
Other titles: South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index.
Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke, almost all of which were written to their respective mothers, with commentary.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : letter-writing and colonial selfhood; title: An awfully bad hand at letter writing : Vernon Lee Walker and colonial history; title: The letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887; title: Self-fashioning and savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific letters; title: The letters of Louis Becke, 1880-1882; title: The apotheosis of savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific tales; title: Epilogue : figures in history.