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Beach of Falesa

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It is easy to confuse the authorship of the Beach of Falesa. Stevenson wrote a short story "Uma" of which Dylan's "Beach of Falesa" is a retelling. "Uma" has since been republished under the title "Beach of Falesa". A search by title on Amazon should return both titles.

I would suggest that reading both volumes is an interesting way to explore the basic tale.

And, admitting to my faux pas, knowing that Stevenson's tale was "Uma" I accidently placed my review of Dylan's book under Steveson's book, thinking that Dylan's would be the only book by that title. My thanks to the Amazon staff for deleting my mistake.

I picked this up simply because I was unaware that Dylan Thomas wrote novels. The novel is a great light read - the story of competing traders of copa with very different views of the natives - tied up in a traditional adventure story of good vs. evil. Toss in a corpse, a beautiful mixed-blood woman, more than a little gin, a missionary, a noble young warrior ... In short fun but not necessarily great literature.

The Beach of Falesa was written by R.L Stevenson; there must be some sort of misprint or confusion here.