Vers l'écueil de Minicoy après huit ans dans l'océan Pacifique et Indien à bord du yacht "Le Tolna". Ouvrage orné de 174 gravures et de cartes, d'après les photographies et les documents de l'auteur.

8vo; 2 maps.

Sewn (paper part. detached of spine).

First edition of the last part of a travel departed from San Francisco in 1893 through the Pacific and Indian Oceans by Festetics de Tolna (1865-1952), Hugarian nobleman, his wife Eila Haggin, and helped for a short time by Captain Wichmann. This book concerning Bougainville Island, Matupi island, Japan, Borneo, Sri Lanka, etc., ending with the account of the ship grounding in Minicoy. Ill. with 2 fold. maps (itinerary and north-east coast of New Guinea) and numerous in-text ill. mainly photograph reproductions, several full-pages.