Author: STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Title: Footnote to History. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Attractively bound in modern half green morocco leather and marbled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine with five raised bands; top edge gilt. Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 where he built a house at Vailima. This is his account of the turmoils resulting from the attempts of England, the United States, and Germany to influence the direction of the Polynesian island. Bookplate of Rex Maugham on the front pastedown. Fine .

Keywords: Samoa, 19th Century Literature, Fine Bindings, Polynesia, Pacific Islands, Robert L. Stevenson, 19th Century British Literature, Robert Louis Stevenson 19th Century Literature Fine Bindings Polynesia Literature: English


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