Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Willem van de Velde the Elder. Two years in the Marquesas and the Paumotus among people whose world was ending - the copra traders, the missionaries, the tattooing and the dancing. O'Brien was a newspaperman who stayed and wrote the best American book about the South Seas after Melville. Its 55 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.
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Beyond Good and Evil : Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
The Mysteries of Modern London : The Underside of the Capital Observed
The Danube : From the Black Forest to the Black Sea
Herman Melville : Mariner and Mystic
Out of the East : Reveries and Studies in New Japan
Jane Austen and Her Times : Her Life, Letters and World
Béarn and the Pyrenees : A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
Through the Heart of Patagonia : A Naturalist Among the Southern Pampas
The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole : Four Centuries of Attempts on the Pole
First Footsteps in East Africa : or, An Exploration of Harar
Adventures on the Roof of the World : Getting a Party Up and Down the High Alps
The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon : A Soldier's Life from Spain to South Australia