South Sea Tales

Like the celebrated <i>Klondike Tales</i> the stories that comprise <i>South Sea Tales</i> derive their intensity from the author&#146;s own far-flung adventures conveying an impassioned unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Horwitz asserts in his Introduction &#147;When London&#146;s stories click we are utterly there at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance.&#148;