Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Farrell, Joseph2017
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
In 1890 Robert Louis Stevenson settled in Upolu, an island in Samoa, after two years sailing round the South Pacific. He was given a Samoan name and became a fierce critic of the interference of Germany, Britain and the U.S.A. in Samoan affairs - a stance that earned him Oscar Wilde's sneers, and brought him into conflict with the Colonial Office, who regarded him as a menace and even threatened him with expulsion from the island. Joseph Farrell's pioneering study of Stevenson's twilight years stands apart from previous biographies by giving as much weight to the Samoa and the Samoans - their culture, their manners, their history - as to the life and work of the man himself.
Main title:
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa / Joseph Farrell.
Author:
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2017.London : MacLehose Press, 2017.
Collation:
336 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780857059956 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.8
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1760922