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MR. HERMAN NORDEN, already well known as the author of several books of travel, here records his impressions of a voyage to the Solomon Islands and thence to the island of Bali, that fascinating dependency of Java. Of the Solomon Islands he has nothing to say that is of moment to either the geographer or the anthropologist. His story depends for its interest upon his lively sketches of the sailors, traders, and natives whom he met. He gives a vivid enough picture of their life and the experiences which are likely to befall any one who makes a voyage among the islands in a small trading vessel. His account of Bali and its people, though somewhat superficial and new only in an impressionistic sense rather than as a record of fact, covers ground less known than the Solomons and will repay perusal by those who have neither the time nor the opportunity to read more serious treatises on the very distinctive culture of the island.
Byways of the Tropic Seas: Wanderings among the Solomons and in the Malay Archipelago.
By Hermann Norden. Pp. 250 + 30 plates. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1926.) 16s. net.
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Byways of the Tropic Seas: Wanderings among the Solomons and in the Malay Archipelago . Nature 119, 777 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119777a0
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