Where Our Hearts Still Lie: Harry and Honor Maude in the Pacific Tapa blanda - 2003

Paperback. Very Good. UK stocked, available immediately. Trade paperback, published by Crawford House Publishing in 2003. First edition. A lovely bright copy with unmarked contents. Very light rubbing to the edges only. Illustrated.

Crawford House Publishing. 2003. Trade paperback. Fine.. 279 p., illustrations, bibliography, index. . Robert Louis Stevenson's stories of his travels in the South Seas have inspired countless readers to follow in his footsteps and experience for themselves the seductive beauty of the Pacific Islands and their peoples. One of those readers was the twelve-year-old Harry Maude, adapting painfully to lonely boarding-school life in England after a childhood spent within a large household in the heat and noise of India. He in turn would arouse the enthusiasm of the young Honor King who, like Stevenson, was troubled by respiratory problems after a childhood spend in Edinburgh, and in search of a kinder climate and persuade her to join him. So in 1929 the newly wedded Harry and Honor Maude set off for the Pacific, with little more than a yearning for a life together, free from the constraints and prejudices of England, in Stevenson's innocent isles. They found their youthful dreams more than fulfilled, not… Leer más