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Chargement... In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific After Robert Louis Stevensonpar Gavin Bell
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Bell has accomplished the perfect balance between biography, history, travel writing and political and social commentary. None of these elements are strained, they all flow (seemingly) effortlessly into each other. Bell brings an extraordinary cut-through honesty to his task, His writing sparkles and continually engages the reader with stories of simple and extraordinary lives, past and present. This is a superb biography of Robert Louis Stevenson's final years, but it is also an unsurpassed introduction to the people and the issues of the Pacific. Very highly recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Gavin Bell, for many years an admirer of Stevenson and his work, resolved to retrace Stevenson's passage through the communities of French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati and Samoa. In doing so, he saw one of the finest privately owned Stevenson collections. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Gavin Bell, a hardened and hard-nosed war correspondent, follows his fellow Scot into the realms of the cultures and fables of the Polynesians and mellows - just as RLS did before him - in their extensive and extending humanity.
Truly, they both find a 'paradise', faults and smells notwithstanding. Home is the hunter, home from the hills and the sailor, home from the Southern Seas.
Highly recommended for both prose and insight.