Author: GILCHRIST ALEXANDER
Title: From the Middle Temple to the South Seas
Description: London, John Murray. 1927, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library, large blue cloth, binding loosened, boards rubbed to corners and spine ends, spine ends frayed, lower board creased to outside cloth only. Ex working mens circulating library with plate to front paste down and stamps to endpapers and some in text, one has offset onto plate of Culebra Cut, Panama canal. Lacks two plates (at pp 158 and 162). 287pp + plates +2 pp adverts at rear, Autobiography by former Chief Police Magistrate, Fiji and Senior Puisne Judge of the High Court of Tanganyika. Much history of the South Sea Islands including piracy and blackbirding as well as occurences during the Great War. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Fiji New Hebrides Solomon Islands Blackbirding Piracy South Pacific World War One Naval Law Justice Policing


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