South Sea Island. The Geography of Pleasure is a literary history of European, Russian and American travelogues, films, paintings, philosophical treatises, all

Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).

In the heat and humidity of the South Sea Island, John G. Paton is far away from his home and family in the cold northern climes of Scotland. And as he runs for