Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Stevenson travelled among the Taumotus (then called the Paumotus) on the yacht Casco in 1888; an account of their journey was published as In the South Seas.In the South Seas (1896) & (1900) Chatto & Windus; republished by The Hogarth Press (1987) Jack London wrote a story, "The Seed of McCoy", based on an incident in 1900 in which a burning ship, the Pyrenees, had been safely beached on Mangareva. In the story, London has the ship sail past Mangareva and all through the Tuamotus before beaching on Fakarava.
