White shadows in the South Seas, Frederick O'Brien
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White shadows in the South Seas, Frederick O'Brien
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
White shadows in the South Seas
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dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Frederick O'Brien
Summary
This 1919 memoir, a huge bestseller that was made into an Oscar-winning movie of the same name, chronicles O'Brien's pre-World War I travels in the South Seas. There he encountered beautiful, semi-clad women, such as the evocatively named maid, Vanquished Often, and spent long, drowsy days and nights full of passion and mystery-a romanticized yet vivid portrait of a vanished time and people
Target audience
adult
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- Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) -- Civilization
- O'Brien, Frederick, 1869-1932 -- Travel -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Description and travel
- Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) -- Description and travel
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- Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Civilization
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration
- O'Brien, Frederick, 1869-1932 -- Diaries
Content
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- Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) -- Civilization
- O'Brien, Frederick, 1869-1932 -- Travel -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Description and travel
- Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) -- Description and travel
- Electronic books
- Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Civilization
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration
- O'Brien, Frederick, 1869-1932 -- Diaries
- Content1
- Is Derivative Of1