Literary culture and the Pacific: nineteenth-century textual encounters

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: acts of reading 1. 'A gift of fabrication': the beachcomber as bricoleur 2. Lip service and conversation 3. 'Other people's books': Stevenson's Pacific travels 4. Piracy and exchange: Stevenson's Pacific fictions 5. In the press of events: Stevenson's Pacific history Afterword: 'the impediment of tongues' Notes Bibliography Index.