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A sequence of reminiscences and travel sketches recounts voyages and life among South Sea islands, combining landscape description, ethnographic observation, and vivid portraits of islanders and transient settlers. The narrative moves episodically through lagoons, plantations, and village scenes, recording native customs, tattooed chiefs, and the mingled cultures of mixed-heritage relationships. Interwoven stories range from quiet domestic vignettes to romantic episodes—naming figures such as Waylao and Pauline and a pair of leper lovers—and conclude with reflective, occasionally humorous digressions that consider memory, loss, and the romanticizing of a vanished world.

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Title: Wine-Dark Seas and Tropic Skies: Reminiscences and a Romance of the South Seas

Author: A. Safroni-Middleton

Release date: May 17, 2019 [eBook #59530]

Language: English

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WINE-DARK SEAS AND TROPIC SKIES


Lagoon Scene, Apia


WINE-DARK SEAS
AND
TROPIC SKIES
REMINISCENCES AND A ROMANCE OF
THE SOUTH SEAS
BY
A. SAFRONI-MIDDLETON
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1918

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED
EDINBURGH

I dedicate this book to you,
To your wild songs and laughter,
And to the half-remembered light
Here in my dreams years after;
To you, the men who sailed with me
Beyond each far sky-line,
And my dead self—the boy I knew
In days of auld lang syne.