The islanders of the Pacific or the children of the sun.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1921. First edition, American issue, 8vo, pp. 307, [1]; frontispiece and 42 illustrations from photographs on 30 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and in a near fine and uncommon dust jacket with two or 2 tiny breaks at the extremities. Sir Thomas Reginald St. Johnston (1881-1950), was a British colonial administrator, physician, author and British Army officer. "From 1907 to 1917 he served in various judicial, medical and administrative appointments in Fiji ... In 1919 he was posted to the Falkland Islands as colonial secretary, and in effect acting governor as Sir Douglas YOUNG was about to depart on retirement leave ... He had a distinguished career in the West Indies thereafter: as colonial secretary in the Leeward Islands (1920-25), administering Dominica, Antigua and St Kitts/Nevis on various occasions between 1925 and 1929" (Falkland Biographies). Item #67862
Price: $175.00
