Antarctic, Arctic, Polar

Whalers of the Midnight Sun – Alan Villiers [Based on His Experiences] – 1964

Maritime hero Alan Villiers brings his undoubted experience to this adventure book aimed at young boys.

A new edition and first of its type, Angus and Robertson 1964. Octavo, 248 pages with ten full pages illustration from woodcuts by Charles Pont. A little aging to page edges and gift inscription back of half title, nice bright jacket, all up a pretty good copy.

End paper maps of the voyage from Hobart, Tasmania down to Macquarie Island; the Balleny Islands; the Ross Sea; Grahams Island before heading north to Montevideo.

A Norwegian expedition picks up some extra crew at Hobart, a motly band of youths and a stow away, little Alfie, who appears at Macquarie Island. Adventure ensues.

Alan Villiers, a yarn about Whaling, from personal experience.

$30.00

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IMAGO MVUNDI (MUNDI) – Vol 41 – 1989 – The Journal of The International Society for the History of Cartography.

Published by Imago Mundi, Kings College, London. Small folio, 172 pages plus advertisements. Illustrated with maps, charts and diagrams. original blue cloth with gilt titling and device. Very good condition.

An annual publication and the pinnacle of cartographic research. Superbly presented.

The Treasure in this publication includes … Kuni-ezu – Japanese provincial maps by Hirotada Kawamura; a French paper focused on the North-West passage with maps by Laperousee, Buache, Delisle etc; maps of the Mississippi and the Gulf of [Mexico!]; dating the oldest Portuguese maps by Alfredo Pinheiro Marques; The Ruysch World Map; the Schaffhausen Carta Marina of 1531 by Henry Bruman etc etc.

Extensive book reviews provided an excellent bibliography for cartography enthusiasts.

Imago Mundi cannot be improved

$60.00

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The Long Labrador Trail – Dillon Wallace – First Edition 1907

A first edition published by The Outing Publishing Company, New York in 1907.

Octavo, 308 pages plus appendix of weather information daily. Nicely illustrated with 29 photographic images, coloured frontispiece and folding map at rear. The beautiful pictorial covers complete a very book. A very good copy.

In 1903, Dillon Wallace (1863-1939) accompanied Leonidas Hubbard on an exploratory trip through Labrador planning to follow the Naskaupi River to Lake Michikamau where no previous Europeans had been. They followed the wrong river and got into so much difficulty. Hubbard fell ill and died of starvation. Wallace survived and wrote his first book The Lure of the Labrador Wild published in 1905. In that book, he blamed Hubbard for the mistakes he made leading to his own death, which infuriated Hubbard’s wife

Wallace planned a much more adventurous expedition, which would become the subject of this book. Hubbard’s wife on hearing of the expedition planned her own, along the same lines. She also wrote a book “A Woman’s Way Through Unknown Labrador” … neither refer to each other!

Wallace in Labrador a second time with success and unmentioned competition.

$120.00

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Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

Published by the Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart in 1974.

A special maritime history of Van Diemen’s Land by the knowledgeable Alan Villiers. Superbly illustrated.

Villiers himself crewed on the whale-ship Sir James Clark Ross into the Southern Ross Sea in 1923-24.

Covers Captain Kelly (see Voyager book on Kelly); The voyage of the “Woodman”; the loss of the “George III”; the adventure of the whaler “Essex” and Captain Tregurtha’s Log; Hobart Clippers and “Graveyard Island”.

The illustrations include – The “Royal William”; the “James Craig”; the “Hobart Regatta”; the “Fram” (Amundsen) in the Derwent; the “velocity” and the “Tasmanian Cape Horn Trader in Hard Weather”.

A smorgasbord of Tasmanian and cold water Sail

$50.00

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Environmental Change in the Sub-Antarctic -Proceedings of the Second International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic – Hobart April 2009

Perfect bound, softcover, 118 pages, illustrated throughout, some colour, a very good copy.

Published in the December after the conference this is the Proceeding of the Royal Society of Tasmania, representing Volume 143 Parts I and II.

Part I features … Climate trends at Macquarie Island; Exploitation of the marine ecosystem; Biological systems at Prince Edward Island; Terrestrial vegetation changes at Macquarie and Heard islands; Invasive species etc

Part II features … Orchids of Macquarie island; Freshwater diatoms; Antarctic vignettes Shackleton; Foraminifera ad paleoenvironment of Late Pleistocene sands, White Rock Point, Southeastern Tasmania; HMS Beagle in Tasmanian waters.

We particularly like the foram papers by Quilty et al … the site being round South Arm … and the tracking of the Beagle is up right up our street … or Ocean.

Antarctic forum – wish we had been there.

$35.00

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Voyages Toward Antarctica 1699-1839 – Below the Convergence – Alan Gurney

We have swapped the title and sub-title around as the sub makes perfect sense.

Another well researched book by Alan Gurney published by Norton, New York / London in 1997.

Octavo, 315 pages, some illustrations, great useful maps, 15 in all, at the back and the extensive bibliography. A fine copy.

This earlier Antarctic period is of special interest to Voyager. We start with Halley and the Paramore, Cook, Bellingshausen, Weddell, Biscoe, Kemp and Balleny etc. Earlier sealers made their mark without too much fuss.

Antarctic – the early years one for the left hand side of the bookshelf

$35.00

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Whalers of the Midnight Sun – Alan Villiers [Based on His Experiences] – 1964

IMAGO MVUNDI (MUNDI) – Vol 41 – 1989 – The Journal of The International Society for the History of Cartography.

The Long Labrador Trail – Dillon Wallace – First Edition 1907

Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

Environmental Change in the Sub-Antarctic -Proceedings of the Second International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic – Hobart April 2009

Voyages Toward Antarctica 1699-1839 – Below the Convergence – Alan Gurney

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