Buy this book on-line STEPHENSON, PAMELA: : Treasure Islands: SAILING THROUGH THE SOUTH SEAS in the Wake of FANNY AND ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLONDON.HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING,2005. ISBN 0755312856.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip,top+bottom corners of rear board slightly bumped.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,
clean,publisher's original,plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate map illustrated endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-399pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters,an epilogue,24pp contemporary colour photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp80/1, pp208/9 and pp304/5 respectively,10 b/w charts/maps interspersed throughout the text and book,17 historical,b/w illus/ photographs relating to the Stevensons, again interspersed throughout the book, bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half- title+title pages,contents list/table, acknowledgements,list of charts/maps,and list of b/w illus/photographs.
'It was considered bad luck for women to be at sea.They rated in the top three guarantors of ill-fate,right up there with rabbits and bananas.'
This is the story of two resourceful women.The one,Pamela Stephenson - biographer,mother,wife of Billy Connolly, psychologist and ex-comedienne - the other Fanny Stevenson - 'the Wild Woman of the West',as her husband Robert Louis called her.Both married to maverick Scottish men, both in search of adventure and a kind of epiphany,both drawn for a myriad of reasons to the coral islands,lagoons, natives and customs of the South Seas.
A love of Joseph Conrad,a desire to escape the travails of an LA lifestyle and a fascination with her near namesake all conspired to inspire Pamela Stephenson's extraordinary voyage to the other side of the world.Following in Fanny's wake, Pamela's encounters with the perils of the sea,the islanders - some of whom had never seen a blonde before - and latter-day pirates all make for compelling reading.
Treasure Islands is travel,adventure, history and biography all rolled into one extraordinary book.
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