1872 South Sea Bubbles

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, with the chapter on the author's opinion of missionaries left without the omissions found in the later editions, which were omitted die to the controversial manner of his opinions. In this chapter, Kingsley expresses that missionaries are pointless, and questions whether it is right to believe that your religion is the one correct one, though he does credit some missionaries, praising the way they 'refrain from fanatical declamations against what to the natives is a natural mode of life'. 

Bound in quarter morocco with cloth to the boards. Endpapers and blanks renewed, retaining original half title. 

An account of a journey over the South Sea by the Earl of Pembroke, George Robert Charles, and George Henry Kingsley, a medical doctor and writer. The work recounts their travels, including their stops in Tahiti, Bora-Bora and Samoa. The work also describes their unfortunate shipwreck.