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There are 4 books in this catalogue.
Into the blue: Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before
Horwitz, Tony
Book Number: 67059
ISBN: 1865088994
Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2002
8vo softcover 480pp very good. More than two centuries on, Tony Horwitz travels the world in the Captain's wake in a quest to uncover Cook's legacy. Along the way, he narrowly avoids shipwreck on the Bora Bora reef, travels to remote beer-swilling cyclone-wracked corocodile-infested outposts, uncovers the conspiracy of the red banana, dons a wig and britches in Tahiti, and survives turkey curry in Middlesborough and gale force winds on the deck of a week-long Alaskan ferry ride.

Price: $15.00


In Search of INCA GOLD - The Journal of an Expedition
Phair, Anthony
Book Number: 60395
ISBN: 
Publisher: Burke 1955
8vo. Hardcover in d/w. Very good. PO inscription on fep. toning where d/w ends on fep, crease in d/w near spine, otherwise very good. Illustrated by H.Harry Sheldon. Seaman Phair saves an old man's life late one night, he repay's him with a tale of INCA gold. Months later Phair sets out to find the gold. This is his journal.

Price: $55.00


The Seventy Great Journeys in History
Hanbury-Tenison, Robin. (editor)
Book Number: 44916
ISBN: 
Publisher: Thames and Hudson 2006
4to. hardcover. 304pp. index, colour illus, maps. Fine. / Near Fine d/w.

Price: $35.00


The King's Ransom - More from the King of Algonquin Park
Lindsay, Paton Lodge
Book Number: 61818
ISBN: 9781771230933
Publisher: General Store Publishing House 2015
8vo. Softcover. 312pp. Near fine, po inscription on half title. featuring more stories and adventures of the exceptional and well-known wilderness man, Joseph Emmett Chartrand, who became a legend in his own time. The old bushman from the wilderness was a person whom so many upon seeing his approach would have crossed the road to avoid the encounter. They would have promptly judged him to be an un-educated, uncouth, unruly, slovenly, homeless old man who lived an undesirable lifestyle. In not bending to first judgement, author Paton Lodge Lindsay who was a young city girl at the time, came to know the old man in life and in love, moving from best enemies to a lifetime relationship.

Price: $16.00