Forgotten Eden A View Of The Seychelles Islands In The Indian Ocean.
£30.00
Publisher
Longmans.
Place
London
Date
1968
Synopsis
2nd impression.
Item Description
8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches. ix + [i] + 185 + [1] pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper which has edge wear and chips at head and tail of spine. Slight wear and foxing of boards and foxing of board edges; otherwise a very good copy. Armourial bookplate and signature on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white photographic plates and by 2 pages of maps numbered in text. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. The first general account of the remote British Indian Ocean colony of the Seychelles islands, examining its topography, history and the lives of its inhabitants. By Athol Thomas (1924-2012), Western Australian author, journalist and popular commentator (WA TV website).
[Stock No. 30061]
