CHRISTOPHERSEN, Erling. Tristan da Cunha. The Lonely Isle … with contributions by P.A. Munch, Yngvar Hagen, S. Dick Henriksen, Reidar Sognnaes, Erling Sivertsen, J.C. Dunne, Egil Baardseth, Allan Crawford. Translated from the Norwegian by R.L. Benham. With an introduction by Lord Elton. London: Cassell. [1940].
8vo. Original cloth gilt; pp. xii, 243; illustrations from photographs, three sketch maps; cloth a little marked, embrowning to endpapers, ownership inscription and bookplate to front endpapers; a clean and fresh copy.
Scarce first English edition. An account of the 1937-8 Norwegian Scientific Expedition to the remote island. The culture is extensively documented by the sociologist Peter A. Munch.
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