Bibliography of non-indigenous literary writings on the Pacific

@London, Jack, Michael, brother <strong>of</strong> Jerry, London: Mills / NY: Macmillan ^1919 (1917?),
%US #MEL NHeb *Fic(dog story) search
@London, Jack, A Son <strong>of</strong> the Sun, London: Mills (&Boon?) ? (Subramani/ Mana)
@London, Jack, South Sea Tales, London: Mills / NY: Macmillan, ^1911/Cleveland: World
Publishing Co., 1946, %US #PAC *Stories search PS 3523/O46S65 Main U.Q.
South Sea Tales, Leipzig: Tauchnitz, nd %US #PAC *Fic 813.5/LON/2 grant
Contains: "The House <strong>of</strong> Mapuhi" (starting-point for Frisbee's novel?— native wants to trade
enourmous pearl for a house with an octagon clock and sewing machine) great piece
<strong>of</strong> hurricane description.
"The Whale Tooth" Fiji: John Starhurst's martyr mission to convert the highland cannibal
warriors <strong>of</strong> Rewa. More a Kipling-esque account <strong>of</strong> mutual respect among strong men
than a Christian hagiography.
"Mauki" the story <strong>of</strong> the escapes and revenge <strong>of</strong> a Malaita prisoner-labourer, reducing to a
two-man conflict on Lord Howe (Ontong Java)—more a waiting game for the other to
break than an outright battle, but the black man comes out <strong>of</strong> it better overall.
"'Yah! Yah! Yah!'" the first <strong>of</strong> London's tales about "the inevitable white man", whose power
rests on convincing natives that he or his breed are indestructible, beyond the normal
constraints <strong>of</strong> human conduct and implacable in their punishment <strong>of</strong> attacks on
whites. Solomons.
"The Heathen" touching tale <strong>of</strong> 'blood brotherhood' between white and brown. Another
dramatically graphic account <strong>of</strong> a hurricane. Otoo is more moral and perspicacious
than his white counterpart, sets him on his road to success and finally sacrifices
himself to a shark for his friend/master.
"The Terrible Solomons" comic tale <strong>of</strong> scaring the newcomer adventurer with bloodthirsty
dramatic enactments <strong>of</strong> the dangers <strong>of</strong> life amongst cannibals and a 'nigger-loving'
government. Preaches the necessity <strong>of</strong> hard-bitten, amoral survival skills in the
"inevitable white man".
"The Inevitable White Man" another tale <strong>of</strong> mass slaughter in retribution for native attack on a
white ship. There's no point in trying to understand blacks; white destiny is "to farm
the world" and the "stupidity" <strong>of</strong> whites is a protective virtue in achieving this goal
(refusing to recognise when the odds are against him and mastering elementary skills
like shooting).
"The Seed <strong>of</strong> McCoy" descendant <strong>of</strong> the violent mutineers on Pitcairn soothes a mutinous
crew and desperate captain and navigates them through the treacherous Paumotus
to beach their burning ship.
Sudseegeschichten, Munich: Sudwest, 196? 8 stories
Die Glüchlichen Inseln, Munich: Sudwest, nd stories
@Loti, Pierre, [Louis Marie Julien Viaud], The Marriage <strong>of</strong> Loti ( tr. Clara Bell) London: T.
Werner Laurie/ NY F.A. Stokes, ^1925
(Rarahu, ^1880 becomes Tahiti:Le Mariage de Loti, ^1882)
The Marriage <strong>of</strong> Loti (tr. Wright & Eleanor Frierson) Honolulu: U Hawaii, 1976 %FRA #POL
*Fic
Le Mariage de Loti, Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1893 PQ2472/M3 Main U.Q.Closed access
(Compare with the supposedly lyrical portrayal <strong>of</strong> the isles <strong>of</strong> golden youth in the sketches <strong>of</strong>
Charles Warren Stoddard, South Sea Idylls, Boston: James Osgood, ^1873)
in Pearson, pp.74-6; reached 211 editions by 1926
Romance <strong>of</strong> young sailor with teenage girl Rarahu in idyllic surroundings. Harry Grant also
searches for the Tahitian wife and children <strong>of</strong> his dead brother, and gives pen portraits <strong>of</strong>
Queen Pomare IV's court and the hinterland <strong>of</strong> Papeete, plus a brief sketch <strong>of</strong> a visit to Nuku
Hiva. Much sighing and sentimental torment as Loti rehearses his inevitable departure and
the 'inevitable' death <strong>of</strong> Rarahu's charming but savage (and tubercular) race. Considerable
tension between keeping things pure and revelling in sensuous license, relishing the 'laidback'
life <strong>of</strong> the islands and resisting the urge to shed civilised accomplishment finds