Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries - 1898, Captain Webster’s Adventurous Pacific Expedition Narrative history of war The contents are unusually bright

The contents are unusually bright with a pleasingly crisp

spine slightly darkened

one of the defining figures of post-war British aviation

Condition: Near fine in an exceptionally well-preserved dust jacket

This copy therefore links the publisher of Britain’s tribute to America with one of the senior airmen who helped forge the wartime Anglo-American military partnership

Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries - 1898, Captain Webster’s Adventurous Pacific Expedition Narrative history of war The contents are unusually brightWEBSTER, Captain H. Cayley. Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. First edition, first impression. A striking late Victorian Pacific exploration classic, offered in the original blue pictorial cloth, boldly blocked in gilt with native figures to the upper board and spine. Few books of New Guinea travel have such immediate visual presence, and this remains one of the most dramatic decorated bindings in the