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Published by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. First edition, published 1952. No DJ but a solid reading copy nonetheless.
PRICE INCLUDES POSTAGE - HARDBACK BOOK.
Since the first publication of this famous book in 1952 more than 250,000 copies have been sold in Great Britain, and Sir Arthur's account of his life as Administrator in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific can be truly said to have something for everybody. It is a gay account of years spent amongst fishermen and fighters, true lovers, sorcerors, midwives, story-tellers and poets; amongst noble-hearted islanders who claim descent from the Pandanus tree of the Lord of Heaven. In the foreground of this personal and utterly charming narrative are adventures strange or terrifying: the stories of Islanders, the missionaries, and traders: tales of terror and tranquillity, gaiety and tragedy, of the ludicrous and the decorus and the adventure of live and death.
"For once a book has been written about the Pacific Islands with neither sentimentality to invalididate their romance nor realism to mar their reality. His pages are enlivened with a gleaming humour which enhances the book's overwhelming attraction. A triumph!".........................DAILY TELEGRAPH.
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