Over the Reefs by Robert Gibbings

Over the Reefs

by Robert Gibbings

Readers Union, 1949, black and white illustrations, illustrated endpapers (maps), illustrated title page, hardcover

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners inscription in pencil to front flyleaf  (see photographs)

“This book is filled with the sounds. scents and sights- and the human beings- of the South Seas. Robert Gibbings evokes the islands with a beauty and a clarity that make the reader as intimate with their life as he himself is.  A travelogue, filled with the authors prodigious woodcuts.”