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The Ebb-Tide
Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
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Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentiful life. The thought is intoxicating... and so is the cargo, which they sample. Inattention nearly brings them to grief in a sudden storm. This sobering experience is followed by another - apparently the dead officers had a similar ambition! - and their dreams of riches vanish.
Then, nearly out of provisions and deep in the heart of the Pacific where the chart shows no land - they happen on a small isle only hinted at in the records and never mapped. Saved! But what is this? The island hides a pearl fishery?
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentiful life. The thought is intoxicating... and so is the cargo, which they sample. Inattention nearly brings them to grief in a sudden storm. This sobering experience is followed by another - apparently the dead officers had a similar ambition! - and their dreams of riches vanish.
Then, nearly out of provisions and deep in the heart of the Pacific where the chart shows no land - they happen on a small isle only hinted at in the records and never mapped. Saved! But what is this? The island hides a pearl fishery?
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Community Reviews
(Stevenson's home at Vailima,Samoa)
For those who know a bit of his biography...Stevenson the Scotsman writer had been for his lifetime a world drifter. He'd been in America too (in San Francisco!),... ...before settling in Samoa, for the rest of his life. So, this novel apparently has biogr
The Ebb-tide is an 1894 adventure / character study, classic novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson about 3 down-on-their-luck sailors in the South Pacific. This story is a darker story than the typical RLS adventure novel, (although after reading the Suicide Club, I'm not quite as certain any more
His Bedevilled and Dishonoured Soul
In all this there was no thought of Robert Herrick. He has complied with the ebb-tide in man's affairs, and the tide had carried him away; he heard already the roaring of the maelstrom that must hurry him under. And in his bedevilled and dishonoured soul there w
Some writers are all too easy to underestimate. I read this book on the recommendation of Jorge Luis Borges, and I was not disappointed. It is one of those stories which, while they progress naturally from scene to scene, cannot in any sense be foreseen.
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