Thirty Years in the South Seas: Land and People, Customs and Traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands

This account of life in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 19th century should be useful for ethnographers and historians of the South Pacific. Parkinson's travels took him to New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Manus, Buka and Bougainville. He observed religion, artefacts and language.