White Shadows in the South Seas (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Frederick OBrien

Overview

This 1919 memoir, a huge bestseller that was made into an Oscar-winning movie of the same name, chronicles O'Brien's pre-World War I travels in the South Seas.  There he encountered beautiful, semi-clad women, such as the evocatively named maid, Vanquished Often, and spent long, drowsy days and nights full of passion and mystery—a romanticized yet vivid portrait of a vanished time and people. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411446939
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	474
File size:	458 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Frederick O'Brien (1869-1932) was an American journalist and traveler.  His travel books, written in the 1920s, were quite successful. His first, White Shadows in the South Seas (1919), was based on his experiences in the South Seas. In 1928 it was made into a film—the first to feature a prerecorded soundtrack.