The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary - Hardcover

Stevenson, Fanny Van De Grift; Jolly, Roslyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295983701 ISBN 13: 9780295983707

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2006

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In April 1890 the steamer Janet Nicoll set off from Sydney for a three-month trading voyage through the central and western Pacific. Aboard were seven white men, a crew of forty islanders, and one woman: a short-haired, barefoot, cigarette-smoking American, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, wife of the famous novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. The Cruise of the _Janet Nichol_ is Fanny_s account of her journey with her husband and grown son; 205 pages; Physical desc. : 205 p. : ill. , maps, ports. ; 23 cm. Originally published: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Includes bibliographical references. This edition published in the United States by University of Washington Press, Seattle. Subject: Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, 1840-1914 - Travel - Oceania. Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 - Travel - Oceania. Janet Nichol (Ship) . Oceania - Description and travel. TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues

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In April 1890 the steamer Janet Nicoll set off from Sydney for a three-month trading voyage through the central and western Pacific. Aboard were seven white men, a crew of forty islanders, and one woman: a short-haired, barefoot, cigarette-smoking American, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, wife of the famous novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. The Cruise of the 'Janet Nichol' is her account of her journey with her husband and grown son through the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands.
Fanny Stevenson's spirited personality led her into scenes and situations few Europeans, and fewer European women, had experienced. Her diary and its accompanying photographs offer unique glimpses of life in some of the last independent Pacific kingdoms and those just coming under colonial rule at the end of the nineteenth century. This book, with an introduction by Roslyn Jolly, is the story of an unconventional woman, her unusual marriage, and her adventurous journey through a rapidly changing Pacific world.

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0295983701
• ISBN 13: 9780295983707
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208