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A series of short stories set in the South Pacific portrays encounters among islanders, visiting sailors, and traders. Episodes move between pearl-diving, shipboard life, and small atolls, showing how greed, alcohol, and cultural misunderstandings lead to violence, loss, and moral compromise. Characters include native divers, mixed-heritage intermediaries, and hard-drinking seamen whose choices are shaped by natural forces, economic pressures, and personal obsessions. The tales combine adventure and social observation to examine isolation, power imbalances, and the human costs of colonial commerce.

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Title: Verhalen van de Zuidzee

Author: Jack London

Translator: Leo Leclercq

Release date: June 7, 2006 [eBook #18532]

Language: Dutch

Credits: Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed
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Verhalen van de Zuidzee

Amsterdam 1922
Boekhandel en Uitgevers Maatschappij Johannes Müller

Inhoud.

Dit eene zal altijd en altijd blijven:

Zij hebben geleefd en de kansen aanvaard.

Zoo veel van het koninklijk spel zal winst zijn,

Al bleef ook het goud in hun beurs niet gespaard.