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The Voyage of Captain Wallis Round the World: With an Account of the Progress of Captain Carteret After His Separation from Captain Wallis Near The Straits of Magellan Rebound in grey boards with paper label to front board, lacks frontis, spotting throughout, copper engraving by S. Sharpe after W. Grainger, pp.48 runs true, vg, T. Maiden, London [no date, but the engraving suggests c.1807]. It seems an extremely rare work, with no references found. 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.
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