(London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1929).

SCARCE FIRST EDITION of the author s account of decades of travel and living among the native peoples of Central America and the West Indies. Many of the photographs are of great anthropological interest. Hyatt Verrill covers a wide variety of topics, including natural history, travel, ethnology, anthropology and zoology. He participated in a number of archaeological expeditions to the West Indies, and South and Central America. Theodore Roosevelt once stated, "It was my friend Verrill here, who really put the West Indies on the map.. Item #25062

First edition. With sixty black and white illustrations from the author s photographs on plates, plus a sketch map of his travels. 8vo, in a binding signed by Morley for Sotheran's of three quarter burgundy morocco over matching cloth covered boards, emblem in gilt on the upper cover, the spine with raised bands ruled in blind and with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers with evidence of bookplate removal, a.e.g. xviii, 281pp. A very handsome and desirable copy, internally fine and near pristine but for the lightest of spotting to the prelims only. The binding solid and attractive with only a bit of age evidence.