ABSTRACT

First published in 2006. A traveller's tale set in the islands of Samoa with the legendary traveller Robert Louis Stevenson as guide, this book is valuable not only for its enjoyment as a tale of adventure, but also for its record of Stevenson himself - a literacy figure more commonly seen as author and not subject.

chapter Chapter I|21 pages

First days in Samoa

chapter Chapter II|16 pages

R. L. Stevenson's birthday fête

chapter Chapter III|30 pages

Our island home

chapter Chapter IV|37 pages

Christmas-time

chapter Chapter V|17 pages

Tapos and other ‘fafines’

chapter Chapter VI|28 pages

Island boys

chapter Chapter VII|12 pages

Picnic to Papaseia

chapter Chapter VIII|29 pages

‘Talofa’ and ‘Tofa, Soi Fua’