'Canoeists' reproduced from Over the Reefs
Creator
Date
1948
Identifier
Special Collections DU510 GD94. Reproduced by permission of the Robert Gibbings Estate and the Heather Chalcroft Literary Agency
Type
Publisher
London: J.M. Dent and Sons
Abstract
Written in Wellington, Over the Reefs, is a memoir of Gibbings’s time in the South Pacific from 1945 until 1947. Along with Patience Empson, his wife’s sister, he visited Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tahiti and the Cook Islands. The last six months of the trip were spent in Wellington typing up the text.
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Citation
Robert Gibbings, “'Canoeists' reproduced from Over the Reefs,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed October 4, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/9370.