Tales of the South Seas - Robert Louis Stevenson

sland Landfalls
The Wrecker
The Ebb-Tide

Driven
to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to
the impact of colonialism, the 'stirabout of epochs and races,
barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes'. Setting his
imaginative writings within the social and political contexts of his
letters and essays from the South Seas, reveals the deepening and
broadening of Stevenson's genius and his growing awareness of and anger
at white exploitation. It was a society in which his love of adventure,
his awareness of the extremes of human nature, and his fascination with
good and evil, could find full release.

Tales of the South Seas
gathers together all of Stevenson's South Sea fiction and a selection
of prose and letters provides not only a vivid portrait of a colourful
and exotic world, but also a full and rounded picture of a superb writer
at the height of his powers.