A FLOWER-HUNTER IN QUEENSLAND & NEW ZEALAND.. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.A FLOWER-HUNTER IN QUEENSLAND & NEW ZEALAND.

1898, London, John Murray, ppxiii + 272, double-page colour illustration, black and white illustrations, colour folding map to the rear, original green cloth gilt. Preserved inside a home-made pink linen dust jacket, probably since new. "My love for the flora of Australia, at once so unique and so fascinating, together with my desire to complete my collection of floral paintings, has carried me into other colonies, Queensland, and some of the remotest parts of the great continent of Australia. The excitement of seeking and the delight of finding rare or even unknown specimens abundantly compensated me for all the difficulties, fatigue and hardships. The pursuit has made me acquainted with many strange phases of colonial life; it has carried me into the depths of jungles, to distant lands, to wild mountain districts, and has brought me in contact with the aboriginal races, often in peculiar circumstances.".