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  • A Naturalist in Cannibal Land – 1913 – Arthur Stewart Meek

    A Naturalist in Cannibal Land – 1913 – Arthur Stewart Meek

    Meek (1871-1943) was born into a Natural History family. Before he was twenty he was at Coomooboolaroo Station in Queensland collecting for the great Lionel Rothschild for his zoo at Tring. He then travelled New Guinea and the Solomons for both Tring and the Natural History Museum. This is a second impression in very good condition.

    This is the book on his travels. Amongst his great finds were the holotyoe and paratype of the Woodlark venomous snake, rare there are still only twelve specimens known. In 1906 he discovered (and shot) the first specimen of the Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly … the largest in the world.

    Many species are named after him … a crested pigeon, lorikeet, pygmy-parrot, crow, dwarf kingfisher etc and several butterflies and moths.

    Meek a fearless Natural Historian who made his mark in New Guinea and the Solomons

    $160.00

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  • Submarine Classic – Take Her Deep – Galantin

    Submarine Classic – Take Her Deep – Galantin

    Published by Unwin, London 1988. 262 pages with illustrations and end paper charts. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

    Galantin perhaps the most courageous submarine Captain in the US Pacific Fleet. His true story is full of the tension of the depth charge attack – Beats “The Hunt for Red October” hands down

    Torpedoes away

    $50.00

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  • “Inquiry into the ‘Jason’ Case” – Correspondence presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command – 1873

    “Inquiry into the ‘Jason’ Case” – Correspondence presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command – 1873

    This detailed inquiry considers the facts of the ‘Jason‘ case.

    Capt. John William Coath, master of the Jason was convicted of kidnapping nine men a short distance from the island of Api and removing them to Maryborough, Queensland, taking them by force out of a canoe, which was afterword hauled aboard the boat and destroyed.

    The inquiry results from a petition put forward by 390 men for the remission of Capt. Coath’s sentence, five years imprisonment in Brisbane Gaol. The petition consists of correspondence and testimony under the Oath’s Act 1867 from crewmen and from two of the alleged kidnapping victims.

    $60.00

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  • Captain James Cook and His Times – Fisher and Johnston

    Captain James Cook and His Times – Fisher and Johnston

    Published by ANU Press canberta in 1979 a very good near fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

    Cook from a different perspective and well researched and worthwhile. Interplay with Dalrymple, the geography of Northwest America, the Spanish reaction to his endeavours and his reputation in Russia .. and much more.

    Another view of Cook and a good one

    $35.00

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