A Pattern Of Islands

Arthur Grimble
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This remarkable book is the story of those dramatic and romantic atolls in the Central Pacific - the Gilbert and Ellice Island - woven into the travel-autobiography of the author, who, the day after his wedding in 1913, left England with his wife for the remotest corner of the British Empire where a 'cadet' of the Colonial Administration Service has never before been seen.
Genres: NonfictionTravelMemoirAnthropologyHistoryBiographyBiography MemoirAdventureAutobiographyBritish Literature
241 Pages

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