Written during his years in the South Seas, these narrative poems retell island legends: the simple fisherman Támatéa, slain for keeping the king’s fish, and the vengeance of Rahéro; a priest’s vigil and a cannibal feast in the Marquesas. A Scottish tale, Ticonderoga, follows a Highlander haunted by a name he cannot place. Stevenson adds his own notes on the native sources.
A side of Stevenson few readers know, as storyteller in long-lined verse drawing on Polynesian oral tradition. Download the free EPUB.