Author: LAMONT, E. H.
Title: Wild Life Among The Pacific Islanders.
Description: Facsimile Reprint; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 359; illustrated frontispiece, title page portrait vignette, text with 6 full page illustrations, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, faded on spine otherwise a very good copy. Rarotonga; Institute of Pacific Studies; 1994. Facsimile of the 1867 edition published in London by Hurst and Blackett. A fascinating account of the first foreigner ever to live on Tongareva (Penhyn Island). Enmeshed in tribal wars, struggling to understand - and survive - in a culture that was radically different from his own, this classic record gives insights into both the people of Tongareva and their foreign 'guest', as well as into culture contact 'in the raw'.
Keywords: South Pacific Region History Penhyn Island
Title: Wild Life Among The Pacific Islanders.
Description: Facsimile Reprint; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 359; illustrated frontispiece, title page portrait vignette, text with 6 full page illustrations, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, faded on spine otherwise a very good copy. Rarotonga; Institute of Pacific Studies; 1994. Facsimile of the 1867 edition published in London by Hurst and Blackett. A fascinating account of the first foreigner ever to live on Tongareva (Penhyn Island). Enmeshed in tribal wars, struggling to understand - and survive - in a culture that was radically different from his own, this classic record gives insights into both the people of Tongareva and their foreign 'guest', as well as into culture contact 'in the raw'.
Keywords: South Pacific Region History Penhyn Island
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 125608
- Book number: 125608