In Stevenson's Samoa

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 1 First Days in Samoa; Chapter 2 R. L. Stevenson’s Birthday Fête; Chapter 3 Our Island Home; Chapter 4 Christmas-Time; Chapter 5 Tapos and Other ‘Fafines’; Chapter 6 Island Boys; Chapter 7 Picnic to Papaseia; Chapter 8 ‘Talofa’ and ‘Tofa, Soi Fua’;