'Canoeists' reproduced from Over the Reefs

1948

Special Collections DU510 GD94. Reproduced by permission of the Robert Gibbings Estate and the Heather Chalcroft Literary Agency

London: J.M. Dent and Sons

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.