First edition. x, 214pp, with a map and occasional line drawings in text. Emerald cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on spine, white motif on front panel. 8vo. Cloth a little worn, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Some toning to text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, browned at rubbed edges, a couple of small nicks, repaired tear on spine (tape shows on interior only), shelf worn.
Grimble of the Colonial Administration Service left England the day after his wedding in 1914 for the far-flung corner of the British Empire - the Gilbert and Ellice islands in the Central Pacfic. His is a continuation of his delightful story of the drama and romance of those atoll islands, begun in the first volume of his travel biography, Pattern of Islands (John Murray, 1952).
