White Shadows in the South Seas - Softcover

O'Brien, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517733316 ISBN 13: 9781517733315

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

By the white coral wall of Papeite beach the schooner Fetia Taiao (Morning Star) lay ready to put to sea. Beneath the skyward-sweeping green heights of Tahiti the narrow shore was a mass of colored gowns, dark faces, slender waving arms. All Papeite, flower-crowned and weeping, was gathered beside the blue lagoon. Lamentation and wailing followed the brown sailors as they came over the side and slowly began to cast the moorings that held the Morning Star. Few are the ships that sail many seasons among the Dangerous Islands. They lay their bones on rock or reef or sink in the deep, and the lovers, sons and husbands of the women who weep on the beach return no more to the huts in the cocoanut groves. So, at each sailing on the “long course” the anguish is keen.

About this title

About the Author:

Frederick O'Brien was born in 1869 and died in 1932. He wrote books about his travels, especially in the French Polynesian island chains of the South Pacific.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1517733316
• ISBN 13: 9781517733315
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138