1. TO THE MARQUESAS.
- Author
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Herman Herman Melville, Herman
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CARGO ships - Abstract
Describes the Marquesas Islands, which are among the most isolated islands in the Pacific and whose popularity inspired writers and authors including Herman Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson. Offer of a monthly service to the island by the German-built freighter Aranui of the Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime in Papeete; Formation of a rough terrain of basalt rock peaks by crumbling volcanoes; Number of varieties of flowers and fruit trees in the area; History; Topography of the islands.
- Published
- 1987