Pederick Iris (6 results)

8vo (21x14.8cm), stapled wrapper, 39pp + leaflet relating to Parish Outreach Project laid in. Good condition. Light wear, bumped. Pictures available on request.

Paper cover, 389 pages, very good.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. With illustrations in colour and black & white, family tree, a fine copy. A narrative account of one branch of the Australian descendants of Captain Richard Arnold and Eliza Cox through their son Alfred Thomas and his wife Catherine Kissack who was the daughter of John Kissack and Sarah Ferber. ; 295 x 210mm; [iv], 140 pages.…

4to (29.5x20.5cm), paperback, 416pp. Very good condition. Mild wear, spine a tad faded. B&w photographs throughout, some maps. Pictures available on request.

Large format softco29x21cm,140 pages, trees, profusley illustrated, light edge wear.

Large softcovers, 29.5x21.5cm, 416 pages, illustrations , portraits, maps, facsimiles, genealogical table,some light stains on bottom ledge, large family gift inscription on verso of cover, John Kissack Arnold was a Methodist minister for three years in the Papuan islands, initially at the Methodist head station of Salamo on Fergusson Island, returning after marriage for a further two. These Journals cover only the first three years. At the end there are half a dozen pages of photographs of his wife Hilda Arnold in Papua before her ill health forced them to retire in 1928. Jack Arnold filled a multiplicity of roles: school teacher and preacher, paramedic and dispenser of medicines, translator, and observer of culture. Originally a Victorian government school teacher before he left for Salamo, Arnold was a good all-rounder, mixing well with government officials, traders and staff members from Samoa and Fiji. Because Arnold identified with non-mission Australians including the planter Neil Anderson, unsuspecting traders on Samarai Island took him as one of their own.…