Author: LYNCH BOHUN
Title: Isles of Illusion, Letters from the South Seas
Description: London, Constable. 1925, New edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) red cloth, top edge gilt, gilt titled, Lynch edits an anonymous friends letters written to him from the South Seas, including his friends obvious distate of 'nigger' and hlaf-castes, and the race mixers he finds in places such as New Guinea and Australia, comments on the hypocrisy of the White Australia policy, xvi 334pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: South Pacific Polynesia Melanesia Early Twentieth Century Travel Exploration Sociology New Hebrides Race Theory Racialism Racism White Australia Nautical Maritime


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