Over the Reefs
by Robert Gibbings
Readers Union, 1949, black and white illustrations, illustrated endpapers (maps), illustrated title page, hardcover
Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners inscription in pencil to front flyleaf (see photographs)
“This book is filled with the sounds. scents and sights- and the human beings- of the South Seas. Robert Gibbings evokes the islands with a beauty and a clarity that make the reader as intimate with their life as he himself is. A travelogue, filled with the authors prodigious woodcuts.”