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The Land of the Hibiscus Blossom

The Land of the Hibiscus Blossom

Nisbet, Hume

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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1727490800
ISBN13: 9781727490800
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 24 2018
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
LAST year, while travelling over Australasia collecting material for a work then being prepared, I thought to score a point for my firm while up in Northern Queensland by visiting that as yet considerably dark island, New Guinea. The Melbourne editor and agent at once consented to my proposal, and considered, with me, that it would be of great advantage to the work if I could make my notes and sketches from the savages and their land direct, if I thought it was worth risking my life for; but was it after all worth the risk? In Australia, New Guinea is a name to inspire fear and trembling; they are much nearer to the dreaded cannibals, and hear more of their deeds of atrocity than we in England are and do. Tales of death from fever to those who luckily escape the spears and poisoned arrows float down monthly. God help you if you go to that fever-stricken land, wrote a Victorian friend, by way of farewell.

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