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Title: Omai. First Polynesian Ambassador to England.The true story of his voyage there in 1774 with Captain Cook; How he was feted by Fanny Burney, approved by Samuel Johnson, entertained by Mrs Thrale and Lord Sandwich and painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Description: Facsimile Edition; 4to; pp. (iix), 120 (last 5 pages blank); one b/w portrait illustration; original papered boards with cloth spine; title in gilt on front board and in black on spine; tail corners bumped; otherwise near fine copy. University of Hawaii Press, 1969.

Keywords: England Polynesia ambassador history

Price: AUD 19.00 = appr. US$ 13.15 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 55053