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Bad colonists : the South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke. Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves

Walker, Vernon Lee Becke, Louis (1855-1913) Thomas, Nicholas (1960-...) Eves, Richard 1999

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Title:
Bad colonists : the South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke. Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves
Author: Walker, Vernon Lee;
Becke, Louis (1855-1913);
Thomas, Nicholas (1960-...);
Eves, Richard
Subjects: Walker, Vernon Lee -- Homes and haunts -- Oceania;
Becke, Louis -- (1855-1913) -- Homes and haunts -- Oceania;
Oceania -- History -- Sources;
Océanie -- Histoire -- Sources
Description: Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke, almost all of which were written to their respective mothers, with commentary
Bibliogr. p. [155]-159 et index
Introduction : letter writing and colonial selfhood "An awfully bad hand at letter writing" : Vernon Lee Walker and colonial history The letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887 Self-fashioning and savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific letters The letters of Louis Becke, 1880-1882 The apotheosis of savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific tales Epilogue : figures in history
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999
Creation Date: 1999
Format: 1 vol. (XXII-163 p.) : ill., cartes ; 24 cm.
Language: English

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