The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas by George S. Chappell
"The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas" by George S. Chappell is a travel parody published in 1921 under the pseudonym Walter E. Traprock. The book invents the fictional Fatu-liva bird, supposedly found only in the imaginary "Filbert Islands" of the South Pacific. This creature allegedly lays remarkable cube-shaped eggs with black spots resembling dice. The work includes mock-serious photographs and scientific descriptions that playfully blur the line between
genuine travel writing and absurdist humor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Chappell, George S. (George Shepard), 1877-1946 |
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| Title | The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatu-liva |
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Etext produced by Phil McLaury, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Illustrated html file produced by David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Oceania -- Fiction |
| Subject | Burlesque (Literature) |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 6586 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 27, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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