In the canon
In the South Seas
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1896
- Pages
- Pages 300
The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, he wrote, are memories apart. Stevenson was thirty-seven and coughing blood when he chartered the schooner Casco in San Francisco to look for a climate that would not kill him; what he found in the Marquesas and the atolls of the Paumotus undid the tourist in him within a fortnight.
The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart and touched a virginity of sense.
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