Maudslay, Alfred P.

Life in the Pacific fifty years ago

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1930. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 261, [1]; 2 plates, double-page map; full teal cloth; some shallow tidestaining to board edges, bookplates of Percy Livingstone Dickson and Myrtle and Frank Soday on endpapers, very good in chipped dust jacket with tape repairs. Maudslay worked as a colonial administrator and archaeologist throughout the South Pacific. "After chapters describing his early life at Harrow and Cambridge, the West Indies and Iceland, the scene is shifted to the Pacific, where his experiences in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, and elsewhere are modestly and interesting narrated." Item #73067

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