'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.

Files

Out Over Reefs.jpg

Citation

Robert Gibbings, “'Canoeists' reproduced from Over the Reefs,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/9370.