My adventures and researches in the Pacific - Softcover

Sterndale, Handley Bathurst

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0949910864 ISBN 13: 9780949910868

Publisher: Mulini Press, 2001

Synopsis

Quote from Publications by Dirk HR Spennemann: "Handley Bathurst Sterndale (1829-1878), son of a British indigo planter in India, roamed the Pacific in the mid-19th century. He was marooned on an uninhabited island in the Eastern Pacific, engaged in pearl fishing, and made a voyage from Manihiki (Cooks) to Samoa in an open boat with the notorious "Bully" Hayes, a large New Foundland and a very small poodle. He wrote for newspapers in Australia and New Zealand before his Pacific career ended in a violent showdown while a trader and self-appointed "King" of Suwarrow Atoll in the Cooks. Sterndale first wrote about his adventures and life, enhanced by fictitious embellishments, in 1871 in a series of weekly installments for the Australian Town and Country Journal. Although he seems to have destined the work for eventual publication in book form, this never eventuated. Reproduced here in its entirety, Sterndale's series takes us through his experiences, his erudition and his vast imagination. Embedded in his narrative is the first piece of Pacific fiction written from an islanders' point of view."

About this edition

• Publisher: Mulini Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0949910864
• ISBN 13: 9780949910868
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 327