Scarce with the original DJ, and an interesting, unfiltered account which betrays the attitudes of the author and foreign policy of the time.

Marjorie Leslie's father was Henry Clay Ide, who held various US government positions in the early 1900s which took him and his daughters to the Philippines, Samoa and Spain. Marjorie was "hostess" and "companion" to her father was he carried out his official duties. This very short book, written in 1942 as her husband and children were doing "war work" for Britain, was borne from her desire to "give the picture I saw of a Pacific that may soon be gone forever" due to Japanese occupation.

Hardback, DJ, b/w ill., 110pp.