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

by Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322226
• ISBN13: 9780822322221
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"