By Reef and Palm

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Casparus Johannes Morel, Richard Parkes Bonington and Louis-Philippe Crépin. The Pacific as a trading station: a white man with two families, a native wife who understands the arithmetic, a mission, a schooner, a debt. Becke went to sea at fourteen, traded twenty years across the islands and worked for the blackbirder Bully Hayes; these 1894 ske...