A Dream of Islands

Autore:
Gavan Daws
Editore:
The Jacaranda Press
Tipologia:
Libro usato
Anno edizione:
1980
Pagine:
289
Lingua:
Inglese
Genere:
Romanzo, Storico

The South Seas… the islands of Tahiti, Hawaii, Samoa, the Marquesas… the most seductive places on earth, where physically beautiful brown-skinned men and women move through a living dream of great erotic power.
Thus the islands of Polynesia were seen at the moment of their discovery by the West in eighteenth century. And ever since then, this dream of islands has exerted a tidal pull on civilized white men, away from toil, effor, self-control, toward voliptuousness and ease.
A Dream of Islands tells the stories of five famous figures oft he nineteenth century who found their fate in the islands: Eminent Vicotrians in the South Seas.