Saffroni-Middleton, A. Sailor and Beachcomber. Confessions of a Life at Sea, in Australia and Amid the Islands of the Pacific. London: Grant Richards, 1915. First Edition, 8vo, fine in red cloth gilt; pp. 304, top edges gilt; with frontis. and 23 half-tone plates. One of the most colourful pre-W.W.I writers in the South Seas, a violin-carrying adventurer who shipped in a square-rigger, stowed-sway to Samoa, wandered through Polynesia in the 1890s and spent some time with Robert Louis Stevenson about whom he relates many anecdotes. Price: GBP 50.00 other currencies   order no. 1178    inquire

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