The Ebbing of the Tide: South Sea Stories

292 pp. This is an outstanding collection of old stories, set in the latter part of the 19th C and about life in the South Pacific just as the white man was coming bringing disease and the missionary as well as Europeans claiming these islands for themselves. The islands are scattered from Hawaii to Fuji; are scattered over vast distances and inhabited by tattooed cannibals, white traders and adventurers as well as those Europeans/Americans cast up on the beaches amongst an idyllic life amid amazing beauty.