Like the celebrated <i>Klondike Tales</i>, the stories that comprise <i>South Sea Tales</i> derive their intensity from the author&rsquo;s own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic.