South-Sea Idyls

Charles Warren Stoddard (1843 - 1909)

The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873) was his most popular book. A series of letters to a friend, "They are," wrote William Dean Howells, "the lightest, sweetest, wildest, freshest things that were ever written about the life of that summer ocean." Stoddard also wrote The Lepers Of Molokai (1885), a book that brought Father Damien and his charges to public notice. - Summary by David Wales

Genre(s): Travel & Geography

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Introductory Poem: The Cocoa-Tree David Wales
00:01:46
Play 01 In The Cradle Of The Deep David Wales
00:29:35
Play 02 Chumming With A Savage: Part 1 Kana-ana David Wales
00:30:40
Play 03 Chumming With A Savage: Part 2 How I Converted My Cannibal David Wales
00:22:27
Play 04 Chumming With A Savage: Part 3 Barbarian Days David Wales
00:36:05
Play 05 Taboo – A Fete-Day In Tahiti David Wales
00:51:42
Play 06 Joe Of Lahaina David Wales
00:25:22
Play 07 The Night-Dancers Of Waipio David Wales
00:28:30
Play 08 Pearl-Hunting In The Pomotous David Wales
00:36:15
Play 09 The Last Of The Great Navigator David Wales
00:24:04
Play 10 A Canoe-Cruise In The Coral Sea David Wales
00:20:54
Play 11 Under A Grass Roof. A Leaf Torn At Random From A Tropical Notebook David Wales
00:07:47
Play 12 My South-Sea Show David Wales
00:29:55
Play 13 The House Of The Sun David Wales
00:30:47
Play 14 The Chapel Of The Palms David Wales
00:30:18
Play 15 Kahele David Wales
00:39:24
Play 16 Love-Life In A Lanai David Wales
00:28:26
Play 17 In A Transport David Wales
00:38:36
Play 18 A Prodigal In Tahiti David Wales
00:51:04