(Pacific Islands) Eleven good works Alfred St. Johnston. 'Ca...

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(Pacific Islands) Eleven good works Alfred St. Johnston. 'Camping Among Cannibals,' first edition, original dark green cloth, slightly cocked with cracked inner joints, pp.327, vg, MacMillan, London, 1883; E. Hadfield. 'Among the Natives of the Loyalty Group,' first edition, original cloth rubbed, text block loosening slightly, spotting to edge of text block, b+w photographic plates, pp.316, good, MacMillan and Co, London, 1920; Peripatetic Parson. 'Parts of the Pacific,' rebound in a red cloth with original gilt decorated cloth pasted to front board, frontis and illustrations, pp.388, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, London, 1896; R. Wardlaw Thompson. 'My Trip in the John Williams,' original decorative cloth stained, staining throughout, b+w photographic illustrations throughout, scarce, London Missinary Society, 1900; Isabella L. Bird. 'The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands,' popular edition, original clothtoning with some creases, fold out map, steel engravings throughout, good, John Murray, London, 1905; With six other works including Andersen's 'Myths and Legends of the Polynesians' in a library binding. (11) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.