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Turner, George

Nineteen Years in Polynesia: Missionary Life, Travels, and Researches in the Islands of the Pacific

1861

173.90 €

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Year of publication
1861
Place of printing
London. John Snow
Author
Turner, George
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Pacific & Australia Anthropology
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [23.5 x 16.5 cm]; xii, 548, 16 [publisher's ads] pp, plates and illus, color frontis of Samoan Orator in color photocopy, map, extra illustrations not in list of illus, folding table at end (often lacking). new cloth preserving the original cloth of covers and gilt lettering of spine, stains on title page, few marginal pencil notes on few leaves, spine label removed, solid and tight copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Hill p. 295. Mostly on Samoa and New Hebrides, the author describes the peoples, their customs, society, wars, mythology, language, canoes, clothing, food, amusements, as well as his activities there. The very large folding table compares the dialects for 24 islands for about 120 words. An appendix gives the meteorological data averaged over seven years for each month of the year.