The pearl lagoon /
Charlie Selden, a young Californian, sails to the South Seas with his "rainbow chasing" Uncle Harry on a quest for a certain bed of gold-lipped oysters valuable for their mother-of-pearl. His thrilling adventures with man-eating sharks and present-day pirates are told in this book with a w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
The Atlantic Monthly Press,
c1924.
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/24026893 |
| Summary: | Charlie Selden, a young Californian, sails to the South Seas with his "rainbow chasing" Uncle Harry on a quest for a certain bed of gold-lipped oysters valuable for their mother-of-pearl. His thrilling adventures with man-eating sharks and present-day pirates are told in this book with a wealth of detail about pearl diving |
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| Item Description: | Colophon reads: Printed by McGrath-Sherrill Press, Boston. Bound by Boston Bookbinding Co., Cambridge. Frontispiece and plates facing p. 12, 90 and 156. |
| Physical Description: | [12], 224, [4] p. (last 2 p. blank), [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Also available in digital form. |