E-Book: An American artist in the South Seas

a.k.a. Reminiscences of the South seas

Description

In this work, first published in 1914, there is an extensive section on Samoa (p. 68-287). John La Farge (1835-1910) first encountered Samoans on Tutuila in 1890; they represented to him 'the poetry of form and color' of a rustic Greece. La Farge and his travelling companion, Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), settled at Vaiala near Apia, where they often visited Robert Louis Stevenson (viewed with some reserve and disapproval). La Farge's impressions of Mata'afa ('a gentleman among gentlemen') and Malietoa Laupepa, and his analysis of the Samoan situation differ from those given by Stevenson in his A footnote to history: eight years of trouble in Samoa (q.v.).

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