South Sea tales (2002nd Modern Library pbk Edition)

Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the authors 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, When Londons stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance.From the Trade Paperback edition.