The islanders of the Pacific or the children of the sun

Johnston, T. R., Lieut.-Col

Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1921

About this Item

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).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The islanders of the Pacific or the children of the sun
• Publisher: D. Appleton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1921
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Pacific Ocean