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Paperback Bad Colonists: The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke Book

ISBN: 0822322226

ISBN13: 9780822322221

Bad Colonists: The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke

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In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters--addressed mostly to the colonists' mothers--with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific. Using critical anthropology and...

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