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Island Nights' Entertainments [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 290 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 589 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 21-Sep-2006
  • Izdevniecība: Kegan Paul
  • ISBN-10: 0710310560
  • ISBN-13: 9780710310569
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 290 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 589 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 21-Sep-2006
  • Izdevniecība: Kegan Paul
  • ISBN-10: 0710310560
  • ISBN-13: 9780710310569
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First published in 2006. A collection of three delightful South Sea tales by Robert Louis Stevenson, this book will be of interest to anyone with a penchant for travel and adventure. First published in 1893, The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp and The Isle of Voices are among the best of Stevenson's works. Beautiful illustrations add to the appeal of this classic book.
The Beach of Falesa
Uma
Sketch Map of the Beach
1(14)
``Uma showed the best bearing for a bride conceivable''
15(16)
```What does fussy-ocky mean?' I asked of Uma''
31(32)
```Have you had enough?' cried I''
63(4)
```I'm no missionary, nor missionary lover'''
67(8)
``I kept posting him up on Master Case and the beach of Falesa''
75(8)
```Will you know what was in his heart?' cries he''
83(26)
``Looking round the corner I saw a shining face''
109(4)
``We stuck just the way we were''
113(22)
``The Winchester cracked again, and down she went''
135(4)
``I had him by the ankle''
139(16)
The Bottle IMP
```This is the bottle,' said the man''
155(16)
``The imp looked out of the bottle''
171(4)
```I though I knew everyone in this country'''
175(10)
```Keawe of the Bright House is out of spirits'''
185(6)
``The young man fell upon his knees. `For God's sake buy it!' he cried''
191(12)
``There, under the bananas, lay Keawe, his mouth in the dust, and as he lay he moaned''
203(10)
``There was Kokua on the floor, the lamp at her side; before her was a milk-white bottle, with a round belly and a long neck''
213(6)
``So off he went down the avenue towards town, and there goes the bottle out of the story''
219(10)
The Isle of Voices
``While he was so thinking, there was his father-in-law behind him, looking vexed''
229(4)
``The herbs caught strongly afire, and the flames beat upon Keola''
233(6)
```Back!' cried Keola. `Back! the leaves are near done'''
239(8)
``There he was striding and dwindling, and he held the lamp high over his head, and the waves broke white about him as he went''
247(8)
``In a wide shallow water, bright with ten thousand stars, and all about him was the ring of the land, with its string of palm trees''
255(10)
``When the fires sprang up, he charged for them like a bull''
265(6)
``Came into the borders of the wood, and stood astonished''
271(4)
``And the missionary was very sharp on him for taking the second wife in the low island''
275
Robert Louis Stevenson