| White Shadows in the South Seas: Large Print Contributor(s): O'Brien, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798577999438 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Oceania |
| Dewey: 996 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (1.63 lbs) 318 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is for those who stay at home yet dream of foreign places that I have written this book, a record of one happy year spent among the simple, friendly cannibals of Atuona valley, on the island of Hiva-oa in the Marquesas. In its pages there is little of profound research, nothing, I fear, to startle the anthropologist or to revise encyclopedias; such expectation was far from my thoughts when I sailed from Papeite on the Morning Star. I went to see what I should see, and to learn whatever should be taught me by the days as they came. What I saw and what I learned the reader will see and learn, and no more. |