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Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. First edition. The Adventures of John Renton. Kirkwall, W.R. Mackintosh The Kirkwall Press, 1935. In-8; 95 pp. 7 plates of reproductions of photographs in black. Blue percale, gilt title on upper board, smooth spine (publisher's binding). First edition in book form of the story previously published in serial form in the Brisbane Courier newspaper of 1875. J.G. Marwick, provost of Stromness on the Orkney Islands in Scotland, tells the story of the young sailor John Renton, kidnapped in San Francisco in 1868, then shipwrecked on an island of cannibals where he lived for 7 years before being rescued. In 1876 he returned to his hometown of Stromness, but returned to Queensland as a government agent. He was killed on Aoba Island on November 9, 1878. A near fine copy with light foxing to the textblock, of this fascinating account based on the words of John Renton himself. 6" - 9¾". book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Octavo, with plates; original cloth. A near-fine copy. Blackbirding in the Pacific in the 1870's. We will advise postage costs and delivery times, which will vary from those quoted by Abe.