The Ebb-tide
A Fiction, Classics, Adventure book. IncipitSparsi lungo tutta la miriade delle isole del Pacifico...Il reflusso della marea incipitmania.com
-Includes the 18 original Illustrations by Alfred Brennan. -Table of contents to every chapters in the book. -Complete and formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette (1894) is a short novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson with the participation of his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. Nevertheless it is not quite a co-written novel, as Stevenson write the second part alone. It was published the year Stevenson died. Three beggars operate in the port of Papeete on Tahiti. They are Herrick, a failed English businessman; Davis, an American sea captain disgraced by the loss of his last ship; and Huish, a dishonest Cockney of various employments. One day an off-course schooner carrying a cargo of champagne from San Francisco to Sydney arrives in port, its officers having been killed by smallpox. With no-one else willing to risk infection, the U.S. consul employs Davis to take over the ship for the remainder of its voyage. Davis brings the other two men, along with a plan to steal the ship and navigate it to Peru, where they will sell the cargo and vessel and...
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Some writers are all too easy to underestimate. I read this book on the recommendation of Jorge Luis Borges, and I was not disappointed. It is one of those stories which, while they progress naturally from scene to scene, cannot in any sense be foreseen.The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne... IncipitSparsi lungo tutta la miriade delle isole del Pacifico...Il reflusso della marea incipitmania.com un roman tragi-comique sur l'chec, plein de mlancolie et de dsenchantement. j'ai eu un mal fou le lire malgr sa petite taille. Je n'ai pourtant rien lui reprocher sinon, de l'avoir lu au mauvais moment.
