The Savage South Seas Painted by Norman H. Hardy, Described by E.Way Elkington
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. TURBAYNE, Albert Angus. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. viii, 211, [1] Frontis. color plate with captioned tissue guard. Illustrated with 68 color plates and sketch fold-out map of South Seas islands. With index. Green cloth, title stamped in gilt with illustration and decoration stamped in b/w., top edge gilt: The front cover corners are folding-in and back cover has a light scratch. Inside on front pastedown is a bit of tape, with foxing on the first free page, and to the rear-free endpaper. Bookseller's notation in pencil on the front-free endpaper and bookseller tag on the rear pastedown ("William George's Sons London"). Very Good-. Item #12328 Renowned for capturing locales in print and picture prior to the onset of full-tilt industrialization and easy automobile access, the A &C Black travelogues are unique in their distillation of former times and places: Armchair travel defined. INMAN 74.
A vividly descriptive travel narrative by British explorer, Edmund Way Elkington (1870-1945), who chronicled his journey through parts of the South Pacific, Melanesia, and Polynesia, giving eyewitness sketches of the island peoples and a historical source which contains ethnographic generalisations with imperial-era biases toward Pacific Islander societies, contributing today to the debate about the motivations of early 20th-century Euro-American travellers, authors, and the reader of books on the Pacific.
Price: $150.00