A pattern of islands / Arthur Grimble
1953, Reprint. London: J. Murray. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #313890
Physical description: 250 p.: ill., map; 23 cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: Prologue: Cadet in embryo. Old man of the Colonial Office; Pacific tramp; Island of dust and dreams; Old man of Ocean Island -- Cadet in action. The bottle-washer; Lost paradise; Cricket in the blue -- Recruiting trip -- First district. Measure of a job; Domestic days; Sorrows of a housewife; The spell on the oven -- Native courts -- Lagoon days. Sharks; Assignment with an octopus -- Strange interlude. Introduction to sorcery; The sorcerer's revenge; The calling of the porpoise -- Listening and learning. Happy old lady and sad old man; Warning to fiddlers; The limping man of Makin-Meang; In no strange land -- Creation myth -- Central Gilberts. George McGhee Murdoch at Ahemama; Lonely station -- Tarawa again. Mautake's patrol; The whistling ghosts of Arorae -- Priest and pagan -- Southern Gilberts. House that vanished; Father Choblet; The prisoner -- Epilogue: Return of a stranger -- Illustrations and sketch map / by Tom Pomfret. Subjects: Grimble, Arthur Sir. Colonial administrators Kiribati; Biography. Islands. Genre: Illustrated.
Price: €18.95