Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa - Brossura

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3849676315 ISBN 13: 9783849676315

Casa editrice: Jazzybee Verlag, 2017

Riassunto

A great part of the last four years of Stevenson's life was occupied, very unfortunately for his literary work, in an active share in Samoan politics. For some years before he began to travel in the Pacific, the islands in which he at last made his home, had been in a disturbed condition from causes partly arising from native differences, and partly from foreign interference. Before ever he had reached Samoa he had espoused the cause of the native race of Honolulu, and in February 1889 had written to 'The Times' crying against German aggressiveness in Samoa, displayed not only in relations with the natives, but against American and English. Inasmuch as A Footnote to History records Samoan affairs from 1883 to 1891, it should be noted that Stevenson first set foot in Samoa at Christmas 1889, and after a brief stay was absent nearly the whole of the following year. Thus it was only during one of the eight years that he was in direct touch with what was going on. The history of the previous period he gathered from white residents such as H. J. Moors and others who more or less shared his political views, or at any rate from motives of interest were opposed to the German element.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Jazzybee Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3849676315
• ISBN 13: 9783849676315
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 124
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