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Scott’s Last Expedition – a Play – “The Fire and the Snow”

A play by Douglas Stewart about Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition.

It premiered on ABC radio in June 1941 to great acclaim. It was to star Peter Finch as Scott but he joined the army four days before broadcast so Frank Harvey stepped in. No copy of the original production appears to exist. The BBC produced another version in 1951 which superseded this publication in 1945.

Comes along with the script of the play “The Golden Lover” a Maori romance.

Scott’s on the Radio and in Film!

$50.00

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Antarctic Crime – A Victim of the Aurora – Thomas Keneally – First Edition 1977

Published by Collins a first edition 1977 in pretty good condition.

A mischief-maker is strangled during a pre WWI British Antarctic Expedition, and personalities are revealed in a believable and usual crime story from the great Thomas Keneally. Dedicated to Bob Hawke!

Murder at its Coldest!

$20.00

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A Cave on Enderby Island -The Auckland Islands (Sub-Antarctic) – Louis Le Breton for Dumont d’Urville – 1840

Grotte Sur L’isle Enderby – Isles Auckland.

An original lithograph from a drawing by Louis Le Breton (1818-1866) published as part of the great “Atlas Pittoresque” to accompany “Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee … sous commandement de M.J. Dumont d’Urville”.

A detailed view of a cave on Enderby with indigenous birds and a small boat with figures in the foreground. Dumont d’Urville’s ships the Astrolabe and the Zelee can be seen in the background. Incidentally it was one of three scientific expeditions to visit the islands that year, the American Wilkes expedition and also that of Britain Sir James Clark Ross

Lithographed by P Blanchard. A sizeable image on sturdy paper – 35 x 21cm to the edge of the image with very wide margin. Some light marks more towards the edge of the wide margin, none on the lithograph itself as can be seen from the scan – overall in pretty good condition.

The Auckland Islands are 465 kms south of the South Island of New Zealand. Enderby is a smaller island in the group to the Northern tip of the main Auckland Island. There are no permanent inhabitants. They are a World Heritage site and classifies as sub-Antarctic. They were first discovered by Bristow in 1806 on a whaling voyage. He named them after William Eden, Baron Auckland. He also named Enderby Island the subject of this image after Samuel Enderby who sponsored his voyage.

Good early image of sub-Antarctic Enderby in the Aucklands

$120.00

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Earless or True Seal – Vauthier – 1820

A lovely hand coloured copper engraving of the Earless or True Seal “Phoque de Chris” engraved by Smith after a drawing by Antoine Charles Vauthier and published in Paris circa 1820. A very clean example. Classified by Rene Lesson who participated in the Duperry voyage round the world on board La Coquille.

Price $270.00 framed in Voyager Natural History style ready for hanging …

A real seal from the early 19th century … click on me to see all my earlessness

$140.00

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Elephant Seal – Vauthier -1820

A scarce hand coloured copper engraving of the Elephant Seal “Le Phoque a trompe” Peron. In the distance a ship can be seen. Engraved by Barreau after Vauthier and published in Paric in 1820.

Price $270.00 framed in Voyager Natural History style ready to hang in your study …

Rare hand coloured Elephant Seal

$270.00

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This Accursed Land – Lennard Bickel

Published by MacMillan, Melbourne 1977. 210 pages with good photographic illustrations and good end paper maps. Very good condition.

Lennard Bickel’s well written account of Mawson’s epic and tragic journey of the “Australian Party” across 600 miles of unexplored frozen waste.

Mawson had declined Scott’s invitation to join the party to the South Pole to lead this eparate expedition. Sadly Ninnis died at the extremity of their effort. Failing supplies required Mawson and Mertz to partly live off their dogs. Mertz died half way back leaving Mawson to complete what Sir Edmund Hillary to later describe as “the greatest story of lone survival in Polar exploration”

Mawson’s epic journey – well documented

$25.00

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