Research Catalog

Title

The cruise of the Janet Nichol among the South Sea Islands : a diary / by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited by Roslyn Jolly.

Author

Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, 1840-1914

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jolly, Roslyn

Description

205 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

In April 1890 the steamer Janet Nicoll set off from Sydney for a three-month trading voyage through the central and western Pacific. Aboard were seven white men, a crew of forty islanders, and one woman: a short-haired, barefoot, cigarette-smoking American, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, wife of the famous novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. The Cruise of the 'Janet Nichol' is her account of her journey with her husband and grown son through the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands." "Fanny Stevenson's spirited personality led her into scenes and situations few Europeans, and fewer European women, had experienced. Her diary and its accompanying photographs offer unique glimpses of life in some of the last independent Pacific kingdoms and those just coming under colonial rule at the end of the nineteenth century. This book, with an introduction by Roslyn Jolly, is the story of an unconventional woman, her unusual marriage, and her adventurous journey through a rapidly changing Pacific world.

Subjects

• Oceania > Description and travel
• Janet Nichol (Ship)
• Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, 1840-1914 > Travel > Oceania
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Travel > Oceania

Note

• Previously published: New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1914.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-205).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0295983701 (University of Washington Press)
• 0868406066 (University of New South Wales Press)

LCCN

^^2003061065

OCLC

• 52814124
• SCSB-11489245

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library