The Cruise of the 'Janet Nichol' Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary

x, 189 pp. Route map precedes text, black-and-white photographic frontispiece and plates. An account of a nautical voyage embarked upon by the popular author Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny, and their son Lloyd in the 1890s, after which they settled at their home in Vailima, Samoa. RLS was best known for his novel Treasure Island and his novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. "In April 1890 the steamer Janet Nicoll set off from Sydney for a three-month trading voyage through the central and western Pacific. Aboard were seven white men, a crew of forty islanders, and one a short-haired, barefoot, cigarette-smoking American, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, wife of the famous novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. The Cruise of the 'Janet Nichol' is her account of her journey with her husband and grown son through the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands."