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George Griffith

In an Unknown Prison Land: An Account of Convicts and Colonists in New Caledonia with Jottings Out and Home

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1901.
First Edition.
22cm x 15cm. xii, 324 pages, 32 black and white plates. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.

The journey of British writer George Griffith to New Caledonia and Australia and his accounts of the lives of the convicts and colonists he encountered. Includes portrait photographs of prisoners and early photographs of South Australian vineyards.

Minor discolouration to spine. Minor foxing. One plate loosening at tail. Previous owner's emboss to front free endpaper and Bookseller's label of Dymock's Book Arcade, Sydney. Good Condition.

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