Idylls of the South Seas / / William S. Stone.
Tetua, the old bard of Tahiti, holds within his mind and heart a wealth of tales of a bygone age, a time when his island home had not yet felt the hurried pace of the white man upon its shores. Stone first used Tetua as narrator of Polynesian legends in THE SHIP OF FLAME. The stories he tells, hande...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©1970 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Of Tetua the Teller of Tales
- The Eighth Great Quest of Maui
- The Sacred Blue Shark of Taunoa
- Nona-of-the-Long-Teeth
- Tafai
- The Demon Tree of Burning-Hawaii
- Queen Putu and theWhales of Nuku Hiva
- Terii-of-the-Thousand-Eyes
- The Cloud Sisters of Lower-Havaiki
- The Dragons of Dark River
- In Parting I