Pearls and Savages: Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea - in New Guinea

Hurley, Frank (Capt.)

Verlag: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London, 1924

Beschreibung

With 80 illustrations. F. 22019 Original green cloth boards, lettered gilt on spine and top board. Gilt on spine slightly faded. A few superficial marks on cloth, two corners tender. Gilt top edge. Endpapers: Tinted photographic illustration interior of Haus Tanburan. Frontispiece with tissue-guard (causing offsetting facing illustrated title-page). Minor age spotting around title pages. Pp. xiii, 414 including Foreword by G. P. P. (Publisher), List of Illustrations. Chapters: I: A Forgotten Land Out of the Stone Age II: The Floor of a Tropic Sea III: Missionaries and Barbarians IV: The Cycle of a Coral Reef V: Waragi the Philosophic VI: Aborigines of the Interior VII: Head-Hunting Statesmen and Diplomats VIII: The Latest Monster Visits Hanauabada IX: Kaimari, A Village Out of the Prehistoric World X: A Flight Through a World of Mud, Cloud and Rain XI: Bêche-de-Mer, Dugong and Turtles XII: Up a Tropic River into the Unknown XIII: Men Out of the Stone Age XIV: Sambio!! Sambio!!. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18962

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Pearls and Savages: Adventures in the Air, ...

Verlag: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1924

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition