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Mr Blettsworthy On Rampole Island by H.G. Wells

Being the Story of a Gentleman of Culture and Refinement who suffered shipwreck and saw no Human Beings other than Cruel and Savage Cannibals for several years. How he beheld a Megetheria alive and made some notes of their Habits. How he became a Sacred Lunatic. How he did at last escape in a Strange Manner from the Horror and Barbarities of Rampole Island in time to fight in the Great War, and how afterwards he came near to returning to that Island forever. With much amusing and edifying matter concerning Manners, Customs, Beliefs, Warfare, Crime, and a Storm at Sea. Concluding with some reflections upon Life in General and upon these Present Times in Particular.

Features;

• First Edition
• Publisher Ernest Benn Limited, London; 1928
• Brown Cloth Hardback With Gilt Title, 288 pp
• Size 190 x 125 mm, 17~3~4, 0.5 kg

Condition: Good – No Dust Jacket, Rubbing To Edges, Front Hinge Cracking, Library Label To Rear Pastedown, Good Ex-Library Copy