Treasured Islands: Cruising the South Seas with Robert Louis StevensonSheridan House, Inc., 2001 - Počet stran: 281 Not only the British writer himself, already famous for novels and poems, but his family with him took to the sea between 1888 and 1890 to search Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia for Robert's health and adventure. Writer and film maker Holmes (emeritus anthropology, Wichita State U. Kansas) has |
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The Marquesas The Land of Men | 31 |
The Tuamotus The Dangerous Desert Islands | 67 |
Tahiti The Pearl of the Pacific | 85 |
The EQUATOR Chronicle Copra and Kings | 143 |
Samoa Down Payment on a Dream | 171 |
Vailima Home is the Sailor Home from the Sea | 227 |
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