Cannibal Cargoes by Holthouse, Hector - 1969

Rigby, Adelaide, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. X, 234 pages, last page blank, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, author's note and index. Text is illustrated with numerous contemporary black-and-white illustrations.  toning of the internal text.  The history of the unscrupulous policy of "blackbirding", the euphemistic term for dragging unwilling South Sea island people to the sugarcane fields of Queensland. The Kanakas, as they were known, were not without weaponry and ferocity and this book tells the tale of the clash of unscrupulous Whitemen and the cannibals of the South Sea islands.  Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Apart from slight spotting of the top edge of text block, no damage to describe. Clean tidy copy, with matching dustwrapper. Fading of the spine. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Local History -- Queensland; Pacific; 19th Century ; Australia; 19th century; Inventory No: 0270858. .