This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... here). Instead of herself, came a letter from the doctor to say she was dying at Sydney. The poor fellow utterly lost his head, left his ship, and went off to Sydney. Luckily a passenger on board had been in the navy, and managed to bring the steamer safely back here, where a new captain has been ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... here). Instead of herself, came a letter from the doctor to say she was dying at Sydney. The poor fellow utterly lost his head, left his ship, and went off to Sydney. Luckily a passenger on board had been in the navy, and managed to bring the steamer safely back here, where a new captain has been found. We have just heard that Lady Hackett is very ill with low fever, and are going off to see her. Really there is no end to the amount of sickness here at present. 11 regret to have to acid the name of Dr Cruikshank to the number of those who have passed away in their prime. He died at Levuka iu 1830. EKRNS AND MILDEW. 183 Fiji, May 20,1876. Dear Eisa.---I have just got safe home from my cruise about Koro, Ngau, Nairai, and Batique. I have one new fern--quite new to Mrs Langham and myself, but Baron von Hugel knows it, he thinks, in New Zealand. Most of the others, I think, I havu already sent; but I think it well to go on sending seed T in case of previous packets having failed, or mildewed. The latter is the curse of this country, and nowhere is it a more cruel foe than in collecting plants. The Baron tells me he has collected in these isles upwards of 2000 specimens of all sorts of things (vegetable), and the mildew has destroyed about four-fifths of the whole! This comes home to me with especial force, in attempting to do Miss Bird's behest of collecting ferns for her. In any case the pursuit is to me a novel one, for 1 have always steadily set my face against all manner of dried plants, and vowed 'nothing would ever induce me to have anything to do with such. But in obedience to her command, I started the largest portfolio in all Fiji, to enable me to preserve at least small sections of the splendid giants which form the glory of these...
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Add this copy of At Home in Fiji to cart. $21.42, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
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Good with no dust jacket. A clean, sound copy of the second edition, described as being complete in one volume. It is not richly illustrated, but all four illustrations are present, plus a pull-out map at the back. The pages are age-toned but not brittle. There is a little staining and foxing to the first few pages, but not the bulk of the text. The pictorial boards are sound and clean, with fading to the spine, but not much wear at all to the binding. The corners are lightly bumped.
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