| Description |
xxii, 163 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Notes |
Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke, almost all of which were written to their respective mothers, with commentary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-159) and index |
| Subject |
Walker, Vernon Lee.
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Becke, Louis, 1855-1913.
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Walker, Vernon Lee -- Homes and haunts -- Oceania.
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Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 -- Homes and haunts -- Oceania.
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| SUBJECT |
Oceania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
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| Author |
Walker, Vernon Lee.
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Becke, Louis, 1855-1913, author
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Thomas, Nicholas, 1960- author
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Eves, Richard, author
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| LC no. |
98021596 |
| ISBN |
0822322579 (alkaline paper) |
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0822322226 (paper) (alkaline paper) |
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