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Title The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton
Author Quinton, Robert
Book #   000299
Publisher   The Christian Herald Press
Place   New York
Year   1912
Book Condition   Very Good
Jacket Condition   Good
Binding   Pictorial Cover

Price:    $40.00

Description First Edition. Being a Truthful Record of the Experiences and Escapes of Robert Quinton during his Life Among the Cannibals of the South Seas. Very scarce. Includes: Australia and New Zealand, among the Maoris, Very good+++ book. Slight wear to corners and bottom of spine. Yellowed end papers. Hebrides and Liberty Islands, attacked by savages, weird customs in northern Queensland, Hong Kong and Singapore, Java, New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands, native theology of the Fijians, treacherous tribes of the Solomons, India, hunting buffaloes and tigers, sight-seeing in Japan, Panopi, in the Philippines, Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, Pelew Islands, a good narrative.