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THE SOUTH SEAS is a collection of memoirs and short fiction written by some of the great authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mark Twain, W. Somerset Maugham, Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson are joined by Australian Louis Becke and missionary John Gibson Paton in painting a picture of one of the world's last great frontiers. From the notorious 'Bully' Hayes to head-hunting cannibals; from reef-fringed coral atolls to 'White Traders' in fever-ridden archipelagos, these stories open our eyes to the rough and tumble existence of everyday life hidden behind the façade of what we call 'Paradise'. In the words of Mark Twain, the SOUTH SEAS is "...the very home of Romance, Dreams, and Mystery." |
