Author: IVENS, WALTER G.
Title: The Island Builders of the Pacific: How & Why the People of Mala Construct Their Artificial Islands, The Antiquity & Doubtful Origin of the Practice, with a Description of the Social Organization, Magic & Religion of their Inhabitants.
Description: First Edition; Thick Demy 8vo; pp. 317; portrait frontispiece "Gwal Asi of Sulu Vou", text illustrated with 17 b/w. illustrations, several text maps including two folding maps coloured in blue, index, bound in original yellow cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration on upper board, dustjacket, very good copy. London; Seeley, Service & Co. Limited; 1930. Important ethnographical work on the Mala people, Scarce to find with original dustjacket.
Keywords: solomon islands south pacific region people
Title: The Island Builders of the Pacific: How & Why the People of Mala Construct Their Artificial Islands, The Antiquity & Doubtful Origin of the Practice, with a Description of the Social Organization, Magic & Religion of their Inhabitants.
Description: First Edition; Thick Demy 8vo; pp. 317; portrait frontispiece "Gwal Asi of Sulu Vou", text illustrated with 17 b/w. illustrations, several text maps including two folding maps coloured in blue, index, bound in original yellow cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration on upper board, dustjacket, very good copy. London; Seeley, Service & Co. Limited; 1930. Important ethnographical work on the Mala people, Scarce to find with original dustjacket.
Keywords: solomon islands south pacific region people
Price: AUD 300.00 = appr. US$ 207.56 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 122518
- Book number: 122518