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Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa (Paperback)
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Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year
Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure
Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last
years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by
colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by
the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola. In 1890 Stevenson settled in
Upolu, an island in Samoa, after two years sailing round the South
Pacific. He was given a Samoan name and became a fierce critic of
the interference of Germany, Britain and the U.S.A. in Samoan
affairs - a stance that earned him Oscar Wilde's sneers, and
brought him into conflict with the Colonial Office, who regarded
him as a menace and even threatened him with expulsion from the
island. Joseph Farrell's pioneering study of Stevenson's twilight
years stands apart from previous biographies by giving as much
weight to the Samoa and the Samoans - their culture, their manners,
their history - as to the life and work of the man himself. For it
is only by examining the full complexity of Samoa and the political
situation it faced as the nineteenth century gave way to the
twentieth, that Stevenson's lasting and generous contribution to
its cause can be appreciated.
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