Exploration & Journeys
South-Sea Idyls
Charles Warren Stoddard
2026
9h 24m$1.99
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Stoddard went to the Pacific and never entirely came back. These are his Polynesian sketches from the 1860s and 70s: the villages, the reefs, the missionaries, the light, the long indolent days, and a young American working out that the world contains other ways to live. Loose, lyrical, and admired by Twain and Stevenson, both of whom knew good prose when it drifted past.
Inside this audiobook
19 chapters
- 1Introductory Poem: The Cocoa-Tree2m
- 2In The Cradle Of The Deep30m
- 3Chumming With A Savage: Part 1 Kana-ana31m
- 4Chumming With A Savage: Part 2 How I Converted My Cannibal22m
- 5Chumming With A Savage: Part 3 Barbarian Days36m
- 6Taboo – A Fete-Day In Tahiti52m
- 7Joe Of Lahaina25m
- 8The Night-Dancers Of Waipio29m
- 9Pearl-Hunting In The Pomotous36m
- 10The Last Of The Great Navigator24m
- 11A Canoe-Cruise In The Coral Sea21m
- 12Under A Grass Roof. A Leaf Torn At Random From A Tropical Notebook8m
- 13My South-Sea Show30m
- 14The House Of The Sun31m
- 15The Chapel Of The Palms30m
- 16Kahele39m
- 17Love-Life In A Lanai28m
- 18In A Transport39m
- 19A Prodigal In Tahiti51m
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