Author: SUNDOWNER [TICHBORNE, HERBERT]
Title: Noqu Talanoa: Stories from the South Seas.
Description: London, The European Mail Limited. 1896, First Edition. Green Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, vi, 178 pages, 22 pages of advertising. Old inscription on front endpaper "E.E. Lavington from Ho, A. Kethell, Dec. 6th 1897" An account of several South Sea Islands and their inhabitants. Many of the stories were originally published in The Weekly Telegraph and The Colonies and India. Cako-Bau of Fiji, cannibalism, Bounty mutineers, Maori of New Zealand, Juan Fernandez, New Caledonia and its convicts, Kanaka, missionaries, castaways, Hawaii, leper colony of Molokai, etc. Good.

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