Title: In the South Seas
First published: 1896
Description: 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.
Subjects: Description and travel, Travel, Scottish Authors, Biography, Journeys, Pacific area, description and travel, Voyages and travels, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Écrivains écossais, Biographies, Descriptions et voyages, Oceania, history
Places: Polynesia, Oceania, Pacific Area
People: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Time periods: 19th century