The Beach of Falesa
Book description
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.
First published in 1892.
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1 author picked The Beach of Falesa as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is one of those books I reread every few years for the pleasure of Stevenson’s prose mastery and its richness in accurate detail of South Pacific Island existence.
RLS ranked this novella among his top accomplishments. Written in his final years at his home on the island of Upolu in Samoa, it is a lesson in the art of storytelling. Set on a small South Seas Island, it encapsulates in its tale of one white trader’s experience the essence of the human interface between two disparate cultures. While his In the South Seas journals more deeply explore the…
From John's list on West meeting paradise in the South Seas.
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