South-Sea Idyls


Read by David Wales

(3 stars; 4 reviews)

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 (9 hr 23 min)

Chapters

Introductory Poem: The Cocoa-Tree 1:46 Read by David Wales
In The Cradle Of The Deep 29:35 Read by David Wales
Chumming With A Savage: Part 1 Kana-ana 30:40 Read by David Wales
Chumming With A Savage: Part 2 How I Converted My Cannibal 22:27 Read by David Wales
Chumming With A Savage: Part 3 Barbarian Days 36:05 Read by David Wales
Taboo – A Fete-Day In Tahiti 51:42 Read by David Wales
Joe Of Lahaina 25:22 Read by David Wales
The Night-Dancers Of Waipio 28:30 Read by David Wales
Pearl-Hunting In The Pomotous 36:15 Read by David Wales
The Last Of The Great Navigator 24:04 Read by David Wales
A Canoe-Cruise In The Coral Sea 20:54 Read by David Wales
Under A Grass Roof. A Leaf Torn At Random From A Tropical Notebook 7:47 Read by David Wales
My South-Sea Show 29:55 Read by David Wales
The House Of The Sun 30:47 Read by David Wales
The Chapel Of The Palms 30:18 Read by David Wales
Kahele 39:24 Read by David Wales
Love-Life In A Lanai 28:26 Read by David Wales
In A Transport 38:36 Read by David Wales
A Prodigal In Tahiti 51:04 Read by David Wales

Reviews

good reading


(4 stars)

Especially nice in the night!

awful reading


(2 stars)

awful reading, ruins text. had to stop.