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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book, spanning thousands of miles and multiple ports, offers an intimate look at the author's journey through the exotic and diverse lands of the Southern Hemisphere. From the dense forests of Tasmania to the bustling streets of Melbourne, it provides readers with a vibrant and colourful glimpse into the culture, people, industry, history, and natural wonders of these captivating locales. The author's keen eye for detail and masterful ability to capture the essence of each place brings to life a world both beautiful and enigmatic, inviting readers to embark on an extraordinary voyage of discovery. In this insightful and evocative narrative, the author illuminates the dynamic tension between the ceaseless march of progress and the timeless rhythm of nature, ultimately reminding us of the fragility and interconnectedness of our world. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First launched in January 1911, this second volume is complete with 6 monthly issues dated July to December 1911. Each in original colour illustrated wraps bound inside the publisher's ornately gilt-illustrated green cloth 18x26cm. Printed by the Hawaiian Gazette. pp1-596; pp101-146 "Encyclopedia and Guide to Hawaii and the Pacific" with Index; (17)pp Hawaii Peace Congress supplement. With b/w photos and maps throughout. Provenance: ex-Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station Library copy, with minimal markings including spine label and ink stamp to front pastedown dated 9/13/44. Covers otherwise very good, rubbed to the extremities with gilt bright. Interiors about very good faintly damp stained to lower edges, with short closed tears towards the end. Alexander Hume Ford launched this as the official organ of the "Hands-Around-the-Pacific Club" (renamed Pan-Pacific Union in 1912) which he co-founded with Jack London to promote regional interests. They hosted gatherings for leading figures at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Hawaii, which Ford had founded in 1908 to revive and preserve surfing on boards and in outrigger canoes. Ford wrote more than at first appears, confessing to London that he used assumed names whilst begging, stealing or borrowing the rest. He encouraged his local business backers to submit factual content for the Encyclopedia and Guide instead of offering them display ads. The content is very rich on Hawaiian and wider Pacific culture, history, and geography, with additional regular features on Pacific personalities (profiling Club members and others), poetry and literature. ISSUE 1: Ford's Editorial records positive press reactions for Volume I "from Boston to Manila" with a congratulatory letter from Jack London. Articles cover the Outrigger Canoe Club, Hawaiian mountain horse trails, tramping in Fiji, Milford Sound Trail New Zealand, through Manchuria by trail and train etc. // ISSUE 2 has a full-page panel containing a surfing photo of Duke Kahanamoku by Gurrey with a passage from Byron's Childe Harold inside front. Articles include Hawaii's scenery, native Hawaiian fishing, Ford's visit to a volcano with cannibals, a day in Honolulu, Japanese rice culture, Philippines, New Zealand's Yellowstone. // ISSUE 3: Haleakala, Honolulu shark hunt, regatta day, Savage Island, tramping across Alaska, trout fishing in NSW. // ISSUE 4: a surfing poem, Hawaii's Laysan Island Bird Reservation, Maori-Hawaiian legends, Peace Congress in Hawaii, old Peru, Samoa, railways linking farms in Australia, Japan's peasants, irrigation, South Seas emancipated women etc. // ISSUE 5 has Ford's piece on the passing of the outrigger with photos from Hawaii and elsewhere, Mauna Kea, Hawaii's immigration problem, rod and reel fishing in Hawaii, Hawaiian national dress, Tapa cloth, Samoan customs (including the fate of old canoes), a day in Canton, Australian coast etc. // ISSUE 6: a full page b/w photo "Duke, the Champion Surfer of the World, Hawaii" (p590) in Ford's article on boys' sports in the South Seas. Others cover Kauai canyons, New Zealand, Christmas around the Pacific, Pacific people, Australia, Index to Vol II, Peace Congress supplement including speech by David Starr Jordan etc. Hands-Across-the-Sea illustration to the back. (Reference: Surf Research website). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Original green patterned boards stamped in gilt, patterned eps. Boards somewhat soiled, small tear to spine head, points gently bumped. An inscription to title page dated 1909 has been largely covered with tape. Small chip to title page and ffep. 455 pages, one folding map, 5 other maps, numerous b/w photos. Slight foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Translated from the Hungarian by Arthur B. Yolland. Budapest: Pallas Literary Publishing Co., 1909 8vo. 455pp. numerous illustrations from the author's photographs, 6 maps (one folding). Starting in 1906 the author spent one and a half years travelling through the South Seas, Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and Tahiti, Hawaii, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, New Guinea and the Phillipines. Two ink stamps of previous owners to the title page, slight nick to fore-edge of a couple of pages, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's gilt decorated green and white cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B]. …

EA. Mit sehr zahlreichen fotogr. Abb. im Text (über 200!), einer Faltkarte sowie mehreren Karten im Text. OGLn.-Band mit Rücken-und Deckelgoldprägung. Kunstdruckpapier. 455 S. 8°. Einband berieben und teils gering fleckig, oberes Kapital ausgefranst, hinteres Aussen-und vorderes Innengelenk leicht angeknackt. Der Schnitt ist teils gedunkelt, einige Seiten mit geringfügigen Knickspuren und einige sehr wenige sehr gering fleckig. Insgesamt noch guter Zustand. Sehr seltener Reisebericht eines wohlhabenden ungarischen Hobby-Ethnologen, der u.a. eine große Zahl ethnol. interessanter Fotografien von seinen Reisen mitbrachte.…