A pattern of islands /
Grimble, Arthur,1888-1956author.
Taylor, George,1904-1993,former owner.StEdNL
Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust,former owner.StEdNL
Includes index.
Maps on lining papers.
Published in the United States under the title: We chose the islands.
"First published 1952."--page 4.
Prologue : Cadet in embryo. Old man of the Colonial Office ; Pacific tramp ; Island of dust and dreams ; Old man of Ocean Island -- Cadet in action. The bottle-washer ; Lost paradise ; Cricket in the blue -- Recruiting trip -- First district. Measure of a job ; Domestic days ; Sorrows of a housewife ; The spell on the oven -- Native courts -- Lagoon days. Sharks ; Assignment with an octopus -- Strange interlude. Introduction to sorcery ; The sorcerer's revenge ; The calling of the porpoise -- Listening and learning. Happy old lady and sad old man ; Warning to fiddlers ; The limping man of Makin-Meang ; In no strange land -- Creation myth -- Central Gilberts. George McGhee Murdoch at Ahemama ; Lonely station -- Tarawa again. Mautake's patrol ; The whistling ghosts of Arorae -- Priest and pagan -- Southern Gilberts. House that vanished ; Father Choblet ; The prisoner -- Epilogue : Return of a stranger -- Illustrations and sketch map / by Tom Pomfret.
Inscription "From Barnett, 48 Albury Rd. To E.W. Taylor" on half title page, bookplate reading "Sir George Taylor ex libris ad Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust" attached to inside flyleaf.
Grimble, Arthur, 1888-1956.
Colonial administrators