Rare Book in very good condition for age, no notes, marks or tears. No jacket. Blue covers with gilt lettering to spine. Spotting to first few pages, light to page edges throughout and to page tips. Bindings good, no loose or missing pages. Sent by Courier due to value of book. Author relates experiences during two years' stay in the New Hebrides. 16 plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm Evelyn Cheesman, as she was normally known, was an unlikely example of that not uncommon species the naturalistadventurer. She was a slightly built woman with limited financial means and scant formal training. Such apparent disadvantages, though, were offset, as the record shows, by invincible self reliance and minimal regard for personal comfort. She was an entomologist who made six arduous and extensive solo expeditions to various Pacific islands between 1924 and 1955 to collect insects, and who recounted her experiences in seven books which gratified the capacity for risk-free wonderment