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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aChappell, George S.
_q(George Shepard),
_d1877-1946
245 1 4 _aThe Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatu-liva
500 _aRelease date is 2004-09-01
508 _aEtext produced by Phil McLaury, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Illustrated html file produced by David Widger
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aOceania -- Fiction
653 _aBurlesque (Literature)
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6586
999 _c48583
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