01733cam a22003253u 4500 6586 UtSlPG 20260610133154.0 m cr n 260607r2004||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Chappell, George S. (George Shepard), 1877-1946 The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2004 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatu-liva Release date is 2004-09-01 Etext produced by Phil McLaury, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Illustrated html file produced by David Widger "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.) Original publication data not identified Oceania -- Fiction Burlesque (Literature) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6586 48583 48583