Author: CROCKER, H.(ED. AND INTROD.),
Title: Adventures in New Guinea. The narrative of Louis Trégance A french sailor. Nine years in captivity among the Orangwoks a tribe in the Interior of New Guinea. New and cheaper edn.
Description: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1894. sm.thick 8°. richly pict. cloth, pict. spine. (viii), 238pp. frontisp., 3 other steel plates, full-p. sketch-map of the region, publ. list on [2]pp. at end. An interesting narrative, incl. i.a. notes on missionary labour & progress in [Papua] New Guinea. A good copy in orig. publ. cloth. Scarce. (cloth somewh. faded, large coloured illuminated Sunday-school prize-label pasted on verso of upper boards).

Keywords: new guinea/oceania/mission/19thc.