"The author came to America to rent one of the farms of Gen. Washington, respecting whom the book abounds in curious details."--Sabin.

In this 900-page work, Parkinson drew together and expanded on the scientific and popular papers he had been publishing since 1887, creating in the process a landmark ethnography of the Bismarck Archipelago.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

With this book as your guide, you will be able to read with confidence the monuments reproduced in this book, and Egyptian monuments on display around the world.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.