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151959504London; New York: Grant Richards Ltd.; Dodd Mead & Co. 1915-1916. Two vols. Tall 8vo. 1st - 304 pp. Photo frontisp. 23 photo plates. Red publisher’s buckram black lettering front cover & spine t.e.g. minor shelfwear minor soot soiling head of spine lower fore-edges w/ d.j. cover art photo & lettering in red printed price label of 12/6 front cover & spine minor soiling spotting to spine chipping & minor tear head of spine upper corner front cover affecting a few letters; 2nd - 327 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates. Dark burgundy publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine w/ illustrated d.j. cover art photo & lettering in red remnants of printed price labels front cover & spine of 12/6 soot soiling to fore-edges darkening & spotting to spine minor chipping head & foot of spine still a VG/VG- set. First British edition of vol. 1 & first American edition of vol. 2 of this uncommon set of travel memoirs through Australia the South Pacific New Zealand and West Africa. He recounts his adventures running away to Sea living in the Bush adventuring with Robert Louis Stevenson both books surviving cannibals tramping through Fiji Samoa Tahiti the Marquesas and the Australian gold fields. The sequel memoir focuses again on adventures with Robert Louis Stevenson songs he composed voyages to Honolulu and the Territory of Hawaii Japan and recounts time with an exceptional Sierra Leone African violinist. Safroni-Middleton 1873-1950 was a British composer violnist harpist writer and astronomer and composed the “Imperial Echoes†theme music which for years was played on the “Radio Newsreel†of the BBC. He would also later pen the science fiction novel “Under Many Names†1937 describing the adventures of his hero traveling through the stars via thought waves to meet an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Grant Richards, Ltd.; Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover