A JOURNEY TO LAKE TAUPO AND AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TALES AND SKETCHES

by Percy Russell

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London and Melbourne: E. A. Petherick & Co., n.d. 1889 . Octavo, original bevel-edged olive green cloth, advertisements printed on endpapers. First edition. Four tales all but one of novelette length plus half a dozen nonfiction sketches. Stories of adventure down under, hidden treasure, exotic landscape. An intercalated document, An Austral Theocracy, is a call for governmental social engineering.

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