Author: MAUDE, H.E.
Title: Of Islands and Men. Studies in Pacific History.
Description: Melbourne, Oxford University Press. 1968, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, xxii, 397 pages, plates, figures, maps, index, bibliography. "Of Islands and Men is a collection of some of the most colourful episodes in the story of the South Seas, told with an historian's regard for accuracy by a specialist who has spent his working life either living, or engaged in research, on the islands.". Good.

Keywords: Discoverers, Beachcombers, Pioneer Traders in Sandalwood, Beche-de-Mer, and Coconut Oil, the Fate of "Bounty" After Mutiny, Mutineer's Descendants, Author's Colonization Uninhabited Islands Phoenix Group Central Pacific, Spanish Discoveries, Castaways, Ta


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