Samoa: A Hundred Years Ago and Long before. Together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-three Other Islands in the Pacific by Turner, George - 2005-11-30

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Samoa.

Paperback. New.

Southern Reprints., Papakura. Hardcover. Like New. Like new. Cloth 12mo. Facsimile of the 1884 London edition. The author was a missionary in the islands, and provides a valuable account of Samoan traditions. xvi, 395pp. Index. Frontis, 3 maps, 3 illus. Unda > Language: English | > Size: 12mo | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1884, First edition. . original red cloth, black-ruled border, gilt spine title lettering, spine darkened, front hinge cracking but firm, a clean, solid and very good unopened copy. . 8vo [19.5 x 13.5 cm]; xvi, [ii], 395, 32 [publisher's ads dated November 1884] pp, frontis, plates, 3 maps (Samoa, Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, New Hebrides), tables, index. . A pioneering work on Polynesia and origin and relationship of Polynesians, with description of religions, customs, cooking, amusements, mortality, rituals, housing, canoes, manufactures, government, laws, warfare, their astronomy, folklore, politics, ethnology. The appendix contains tables of 132 words in 59 Polynesian dialects. A picture of this book is available on request by email.