Author: ELLIS, ALBERT F.
Title: Adventuring in Coral Seas
Description: Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1936, First Edition. Green Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xvi, 264 pages, endpaper maps, b/w photos. Spine darkened, otherwise very good. A follow-up to the author's book on Ocean Island & Nauru, relating his travels and adventures throughout the South West Pacific with chapters on the island labour trade in Queensland and descriptions of life in North Queensland in the 1930's. Hull island, Baker and Howland, Kanaka, the Phoenix group, Raine Island, the Barrier Reef, Rocky Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Lady Elliott island, the Bunker and Capricorn groups, Nauru, prospecting for phosphate, Fiji, Fairfax island, Goulburn island, North Australia, Queensland, Heron island, etc. Good.

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