Anthropologist Albert Buell Lewis spent four years traveling through the former colonies of Melanesia as an ethnological researcher for The Field Museum. The diaries that he kept offer readers a firsthand account of conditions in Melanesia before the first world war and a rare glimpse into how the world's great natural history and ethnological museums built their collections. Edited and annotated by Robert L. Welsch, Adjunct Curator of Anthropology at The Field Museum.

Hardcover 2-volume set.
11" x 9".