Publisher's Synopsis
Synopsis:
"The same temperature in England would not have collided in the middle of summer, but it was cruelly cold for the South Sea ... And those three men felt it too and were shivering. They wore light cotton clothes, the same ones in which they had sweated during the day, and endured the tropical downpours; and to make up for their trouble, they had not eaten breakfast, they had ignored food and had missed dinner. According to the common expression in the South Sea, those three men were 'on the beach'. The common misfortune had brought them together, recognizing themselves by the three most miserable, English-speaking beings in Tahiti; and beyond their misery, each of them knew little about the other two, not even their real names. All three had made a long apprenticeship on their way to ruin ... "These three characters, The protagonists of The Hangover, the last work published in the lifetime of Robert L. Stevenson, will have the opportunity to leave an English Tahiti, manning the Farallone, a ship that the plague has left without a white crew, bound for Sydney with a cargo of champagne, but ... Peru is not far away and champagne is too strong a temptation ...
