A Yachting Cruise in the South Seas.

£200 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Obviously an enlightened man, Wood expresses his fears for the Polynesian race following the annexation of Fiji and the arrival of “money-grasping Europeans.” He was accompanied by the photographer George Smith, for whom he had had a dark room constructed aboard his yacht. An issue with six plates was also published in the same year, varying only in these being mentioned on the title page.

• Year: 1875

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