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...Habitat for Humanity Participants in Habitat's Global Village programs spend one to three weeks helping build houses for needy families in any of 60 countries, including Mozambique, Ireland, Samoa, New Zealand, Guyana...
...years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls of Samoa. Regular steamer connections with Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. meant the bestselling author could keep up serial publication of his writings. As well as novels and short stories, there were travel pieces, political reportage, poetry and prayers. Stevenson never thought small. "His wish to be buried on Mount Vaea was in keeping with that largeness," says...
...Until recently, the reputation of Stevenson's Pacific writings was in similar tatters. Growing up in Apia as a boy, and later on scholarship in New Zealand, Albert Wendt recalls reading Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde "like every other young person, but I never considered him an important writer." Seeking to reposition his work as rich and revelatory, Wellington University's Roger Robinson last year published Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings. "Together they form a contribution to the literature in English of the Pacific, in five genres, that still stands unmatched," he concludes. So in this postcolonial...
...nonfiction that Wendt, the first Polynesian professor of New Zealand literature, believes will last. "As I write these words ? the sound of that vexed harbour hums in my ears," writes Stevenson in A Footnote to History (1892), his journalistic account of the cultural friction that greeted his 1889 arrival in Apia. Samoa was shaping up as the site of a naval conflict between Germany and the U.S., backed by Britain, but war was averted when a hurricane sank several battleships in Apia's harbor. Stevenson prophetically saw the disaster - which led to the signing of the Berlin Treaty...
...child of the pacific diaspora, it seemed a perfect place to meet: amidst the clamor and conveyor belts of Auckland Airport. This year 1,100 Samoans will officially migrate to New Zealand, swelling the ranks of the estimated 115,000 of their countrymen - two out of five Samoans - who live there. Sima Urale is one of them. To identify herself at the airport meeting, "from a million islanders flying out and arriving that same day," she's sent through a passport photo of herself - though when she turns up, hair cascading over a tracksuit top and jeans, there...