BIRD, ISABELLA.

Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. The Hawaiian Archipeligo.

[London]. John Murray. 1890. 7th edition. Stock ID #165281

Green cloth titled in gilt on spine, with gilt vignette on front board, delightful black and white period illustrations and a fold-out map of the Hawaiian Archipeligo in fine condition. xv + 318pp + 35 adverts dated 1894. Prior owner's name in pencil on title page, cloth flecked, inner hinges cracking but a good firm copy.

Isabella Bird was a formidable world traveller and British writer who went far beyond the boundaries explored by other Westerners. Here she describes living in Hawaii in the 1870s.

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