y separately published work icon Ragged Romance: Out of Sapphire Seas and Tropic Lands single work   novel   romance   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 Ragged Romance: Out of Sapphire Seas and Tropic Lands
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'Narrates the romantic peregrinations of a young aesthete devoted to his violin. He wanders through New Zealand, Samoa, New Guinea, the Marquesas and back to New Zealand. There are references to Maori legends, gold hunting and pearling, as well as meetings with R. L. Stevenson.' - Miller

Notes

  • Author's foreword is an untitled poem beginning: The wind's song and a bird's song, and the song of the singing sea.
  • Epigraph: The magic kowari hangs its golden head-/ A symbol, hid in deepest forest gloom,/ Of beauty's self, and heart unwearied ... - Maori Legend

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Jarrold ,       1923 .
      Extent: 252p.
      Note/s:
      • Date of publication does not appear on the book but an advertisement printed in the back pages for the author's Island Princess (1924) supports Miller's date of 1923.
      • Made and printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London.
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    American Samoa,
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    South Pacific, Pacific Region,
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    New Zealand,
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    Pacific Region,
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    Papua New Guinea,
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    Pacific Region,
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    French Polynesia,
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    South Pacific, Pacific Region,
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