Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author’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, “When London’s stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance.”
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9789354626586 ● Taille du fichier 0.4 MB ● Maison d’édition True Sign Publishing House ● Publié 2023 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8284866 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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