{"product_id":"2940013342460","title":"Mystic Isles of the South Seas","description":"Ia Ora Na!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a simple record of my days and nights, my thoughts and dreams,\u003cbr\u003ein the mystic isles of the South Seas, written without authority\u003cbr\u003eof science or exactitude of knowledge. These are merely the vivid\u003cbr\u003eimpressions of my life in Tahiti and Moorea, the merriest, most\u003cbr\u003efascinating world of all the cosmos; of the songs I sang, the dances\u003cbr\u003eI danced, the men and women, white and tawny, with whom I was joyous\u003cbr\u003eor melancholy; the adventures at sea or on the reef, upon the sapphire\u003cbr\u003elagoon, and on the silver beaches of the most beautiful of tropics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this volume are no discoveries unless in the heart of the human. I\u003cbr\u003ewent to the islands below the equator with one thought--to play. All\u003cbr\u003ethat I have set down here is the profit of that spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe soul of man is afflicted by the machine he has fashioned through\u003cbr\u003ethe ages to achieve his triumph over matter. In this light chronicle\u003cbr\u003eI would offer the reader an anodyne for a few hours, of transport\u003cbr\u003eto the other side of our sphere, where are the loveliest scenes the\u003cbr\u003eeyes may find upon the round of the globe, the gentlest climate of\u003cbr\u003eall the latitudes, the most whimsical whites, and the dearest savages\u003cbr\u003eI have known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mystic Isles of the South Seas\" precedes in experience my former book,\u003cbr\u003e\"White Shadows in the South Seas,\" and will be followed by \"Atolls of\u003cbr\u003ethe Sun,\" which will be the account of a visit to, and a dwelling on,\u003cbr\u003ethe blazing coral wreaths of the Dangerous Archipelago, where the\u003cbr\u003estrange is commonplace, and the marvel is the probability of the hour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese three volumes will cover the period I spent during three\u003cbr\u003ejourneys with the remnants of the most amazing of uncivilized races,\u003cbr\u003ewhose discovery startled the old world, and whom another generation\u003cbr\u003ewill cease to know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTirara!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaru-tané.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175326105840,"sku":"2940013342460","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013342460_p0.jpg?v=1763579960","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013342460","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}