Letter and Sketches from the New Hebrides
by Paton, Maggie Whitecross
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: : Hodder & Stoughton, , 1895. . Third edition revised. 8vo, . Illustrated with frontis, plates and a map. green cloth with gilt vignette of a palm tree on front cover. Upper portion of front cover mottled, dampstaining to lower margin of frontis portrait and to blank margins of last 50 pages and endpapers. A fair to good copy. Maggie Paton was the second wife of missionary John G. Paton who settled with him in Aniwa in the New Hebrides. "Her account of life on Aniwa is by turns high spirited and despairing-the latter particularly when one by one her children are sent for their own safety to live with relatives in Australia; it is less saccharine than many a missionary's tale and one of the most often reprinted of them all". (Robinson).
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- Bookseller
- Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 665
- Title
- Letter and Sketches from the New Hebrides
- Author
- Paton, Maggie Whitecross
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Third edition revised
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1895.
- Pages
- xi, [3], 382, [2] pp. ads.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book-Travel/Exploration;
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Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB
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