BY REEF AND PALM
By Louis Becke
Dixon-Price Publishing
ISBN: 1929516215
Literary Fiction / Adventure

Reviewed by Barbara Buhrer, MyShelf.Com
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This is a series of short stories, some so short they might be considered vignettes, depicting the lives of Europeans and natives of the South Pacific islands: their loves, their interdependence, their lives affected by the atmosphere of the islands with sometimes a clash of cultures.

This is a picture of the South Pacific islands before the influx of foreigners and civilization--not the romantic South Pacific as depicted in travelogues, but as reality in its exotic and sometimes cruel world.

The stories are brief, well-written with the reader involved personally.

Originally published in the late 1880's, these stories are as relevant today as they were then.

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