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A collection of short stories set in the Pacific islands that evokes island life through close portraits of families, elders, laborers, and visitors. Scenes move from shaded household lawns and coconut-fringed reefs to mountain houses and surf, alternating intimate domestic moments with seafaring and mythic incidents. Recurring concerns are aging, inheritance, cross-cultural contact, economic change, and the ways landscape shapes personal choices. The writing emphasizes vivid natural detail, local color, and moral ambiguity rather than tidy resolutions.

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Title: Island Tales / On the Makaloa Mat

Author: Jack London

Release date: April 1, 2000 [eBook #2152]
Most recently updated: September 27, 2021

Language: English

Credits: David Price

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ON THE MAKALOA MAT

BY
JACK LONDON

MILLS & BOON, LIMITED
49 RUPERT STREET
LONDON, W.1

Published 1920

Copyright in the United States of America by Jack London.