Over The Reefs, Robert Gibbings. Illustrated 1st Ed.
SPECIALIST TITLE *Note - DJ sustained damage while in our possession - item has been discounted accordingly to reflect this. (60mmx30mm triangular piece ripped off from front page - authors name affected)
Over The Reefs
Robert Gibbings
Publisher: Dent
Publication year: 1948
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
Condition Notes: Please Note the photographs attached are of the actual book you are purchasing. Please review these carefully and feel free to request more should you require them.
Darkened edges to top and side, minimal foxing otherwise considering the age of the book. DJ present and unclipped but has certainly seen better days with a few rips and tears . Some sun damage to the edges of boards. Gilt still fairly bright, having being protected well by the DJ. Spine in fair condition, having a slight lean to it.
*Note - DJ sustained damage while in our possession - item has been discounted accordingly to reflect this. (60mmx30mm triangular piece ripped off from front page - authors name affected)
About the book:
A lovely book, illustrated by the author throughout.
From the cover:
As soon as the war was over Robert Gibbins decided to make use of the freedom to travel that peace was expected to bring, and overcoming initial difficulties and restrictions he set out for an eighteen months’ tour of the Polynesian Islands, form Tonga to Tahiti. He had been to the Pacific before, and knew the lines of research and discovery that he hoped to follow. For long periods then he lived with the natives, even to the point of being made a high chief of one of the islands, studying their habits and customs. But while doing this with one side his nature, he essayed with the other to remain European enough to observe and comment by European standards. As an Irishman he succeeded in holding the balance nicely, and the result has come home with him in the form of a long and fascinating account, packed with anecdote, of the islands and islanders. Illustrated by as fine a set of wood engravings as is ever likely to be made of that part of the world.
Among the coral reefs and blue lagoons we are invited to wander with this genial artist as guide, to taste, to smell, and to see the exotic, and to be entertained by his all-embracing humour which stands between us and the dangerous realities of life in those far away islands.
