ST HELENA BRITANNICA: STUDIES IN SOUTH ATLANTIC ISLAND HISTORY
by Trevor W. Hearl; Alexander Hugo Schulenburg
Published by Society Of Friends Of St Helena. 1st thus. 2013
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. These papers had previously been published only as typescript leaflets and in small specialist journals. The chapters cover aspects of St Helena's history from its discovery in the 1950s, including sixteenth and seventeenth century visitors and surgeons, East Indis shipping, the island's Huguenots and Baptists, telegraphs, and the Napoleonic period, island merchants, horse racing, Darwin and other natural historians, church memorials, photography and publishing, as well as St Helena's role as a whaling port and coaling station. Edited by Alexander Hugo Schulenburg. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. xxxiv and 341 pages including index.
Couple of tiny foxspots to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to dedication page. Else a clean copy. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
ISBN: 9780957491809
Stock no. 1830817
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK GENERAL)
- ATLANTIC
- ISLANDS
