Author(s): Edward Reeves

Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration | Antiquarian/Classics/Rare

Brown Men and Women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896. The book includes the staged "cannibal feast in the making" photograph (inaccurately dated 1869) by Thomas Andrew, a mainly studio New Zealand photographer working in Samoa from 1890 until the 1930s.  Reeves also wrote "Homeward bound after thirty years. A colonist's impression of New Zealand, Australia, Tangier and Spain" London, 1892. 

Frontispiece, plates, folding map. 8vo. Original red, gilt, embossed cloth (recently rebacked). 1st edition. Scarce and in good condition, complete with all plates and the folding map of Tongatabu.