Author(s): John Davies, C.W. Newbury (Editor)

Hakluyt Society | Secondhand

In the early decades of the nineteenth century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious  and the calculating, for writers and adventureres.  The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave that merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants.
Welshman John Davies' manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries, and persented as a contribution to pacific literature.

Dust jacket heavily foxed.  Interior fold price clipped.  Edges of pages foxed.  Some pages still unopened.