Tengo este libro en una edición "pulp" de Siete Leguas, pero por la foto que aparece en portada imagino que es el mismo. Un final del siglo XIX pasado en diferentes archipiélagos del Pacífico: Las Gilbert, las Marshall, comentando a la vez vivencias de tiempo pasado en Hawaii o en Tahití.
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I read this in the hopes that there would be some stories about Stevenson's time in Hawaii, but it was more about his travels in other South Sea islands. Some of it was interesting--I loved his tales of local ghost stories and some of the characters he met. He also had some lovely descriptions of th

It was interesting to read Stevenson’s account of his experiences in the South Seas in the 1800s at the cusp of change with colonialisation and religion which had started to have an impact. As he is a novelist, sometimes his scenery descriptions were a bit long and flowery for my liking for this kin

Un Stevenson diferente al de sus conocidas novelas, pero que demuestra en cada página su magistral pluma. La ingenuidad en algunas de sus descripciones de las gentes de las islas Marquesas, Gilbert, Paumotus, no disminuye el encanto de su narración y el profundo respeto por su cultura. La tuberculos

Interesting account of Stevenson's journey through the islands of the Pacific Ocean. It's much better written than Martin Johnson's book on the same subject and describes in much more detail his adventures among the Polynesians.
Comparing both books, it is surprising how much things changed in just 1

Stevenson's relation of his experiences aboard a yacht cruising through the South Seas. The sequences about cannibal high places are stuck in my mind forever. He has a way of bringing alive the ocean and its islands like no other author I've read.