Author: Grimble, Arthur
Title: Return to the Islands
Description: John Murray, London, 1957. First Paperback Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles, contents & prologue to front. This is the sequel to. A Pattern of Islands.. It takes the reader further into the story of the author's time in the Gilbert & Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean. In 'Return to the Islands' Sir Arthur Grimble returns, alone this time, not only to the friendship of the Gilbert and Ellice Islanders and to continue his instruction in etiquette at the hands of 'Movement of Clouds', who becomes his adopted daughter, but also to increased anxieties and responsibilities on Bannaba (Ocean Island) in his role as resident Commissioner, Magistrate and in charge of police and prisons, he has to intervene in the riots between the Gilbertese and Chinese labour force and to make arrests single-handed on the island of Arorae. But the Gilbertese know him as a friend and support him faithfully and with affection, though sometimes not without merriment when he shows himself ignorant of the finer points of their code of behaviour. He vividly relates how oral poems were composed in Kiribati & describes the first stirring of poetry as a “divine spark of inspiration,” which gives the poet his mana. viii + 215. No Dust Jacket as published. Black titles spine. illustrated by b/w. drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Gilbert & Ellice Islands; Biography & Autobiography; Kiribati; Indigenous Cultures. Inventory No: 5126.

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