In the South Seas records Stevensons travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 18889. Originally... » 

In the South Seas records Stevensons travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 18889. Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled it was then ambitiously rewritten to describe the islands and islanders as well as Stevensons own personal experiences. These revisions continued when Stevenson settled on the Samoan island where he died in 1894 and In the South Seas was published posthumously in 1896. Its combination of personal anecdote and historical account of autobiography and anthropology of Stevenson and South Sea Islands has a particular charm. «