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Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea islands adventure on H.M.S. Challenger, edited by Diana Evelyn Hill & Edmée Helen Cudmore

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Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea islands adventure on H.M.S. Challenger, edited by Diana Evelyn Hill & Edmée Helen Cudmore

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104) and index

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea islands adventure on H.M.S. Challenger

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by Diana Evelyn Hill & Edmée Helen Cudmore

Series statement

Mr Guilfoyle trilogy, 3

Summary

Discover the inspiration for the famed redesign of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. It was the young William Guilfoyle's botanical tour of the South Sea Islands in 1868 that provided his vision for the one of the world's great public parks. Share his excitement of discovering and collecting tropical plants, giving the local cannibals a very wide berth and being an eyewitness to an uprising in Fiji. Here is an unprecedented armchair view of the riches of this region by an emerging botanist who would later transform our understanding of garden design. Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger is Guilfoyle's detailed account of the four months he spent exploring Samoa, the Friendly Islands, Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia

Target audience

adult

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