Author: BURNETT, FRANK.
Title: The Wreck Of The "Tropic Bird" And Other South Sea Stories.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. (ii), 113, frontispiece, 4 pages of f/p b/w photographic plates; original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front, corners and edges bumped, previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper, white mark to back of cloth, minor marks to front, a good copy. London, Sifton, Praed & Co, 1926. Contains a brief narrative based on the cotton labour trade between the Solomon Islands and Queensland in the 1860's, plus short sketches on Fijian culture .

Keywords: maritime history South Pacific region ships sailing