The Last Lemurian: A Westralian Romance. George Firth Scott. London: James Bowden, [1898]. Illustrat

The Last Lemurian: A Westralian Romance. George Firth Scott. London: James Bowden, [1898]. Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. First edition. “Adventure story set in Western Australia of the discovery of pigmy subhuman people ruled over by Tor Ymmothe, the last Lemurian.” “Exuberant, somewhat ludicrous semi-juvenile adventure romance … Motifs include a lost race of Lemurians who live around an extinct volcano; a bunyip – a monster with a human head, crocodile body, and assorted appendages; a sleeping beauty who awakens but later crumbles into dust; a curse laid on the land by a mistreated missionary; semi-vampirism and bondage; alchemical gold; and a ghost.” -- source link

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