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The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters – A 6,700 Mile Voyage Alone Across the Pacific – William Willis – 1955

Published by Hutchinson, London a first UK edition 1955. Octavo, 243 pages, nicely illustrated with photographic images, charts and sketches. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

Further and faster than the Kon-Tiki … William Willis achieved the impossible in 1954 sailing his incredible raft for Callao, Peru to Pago Pago in British Samoa.

Strap those logs tightly next time you raft!

$25.00

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Polar Castaways – The Ross Sea Party – McElrea and Harrowfield – First Edition 2004

Published by Canterbury University Press, a quality production, first edition 2004. Octavo, 315 pages, well illustrated and in very good if not fine condition.

A through account of the Shackleton 1914 expedition Ross Sea Party.

The Aurora escaped its winter moorings and left the men stranded yet they still went about their task laying depot’s for Shackleton’s attempt at the first right across. Three of the ten men died and it took perennial Captain J.K. Davis to rescue them

First time Ross Sea Party fully explained

$35.00

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Vagabonding Under Sail – Crealock – Sought After First Edition 1952

First edition sailing classic published by Peter Davies, London in 1952. Octavo, 304 pages with illustrations and endpaper maps. Very good copy with the odd mark and minor tape ghosts to the endpapers. Good complete dust jacket with small closed tears at spine ends.

Four young men escape the torment of everyday life. They buy a 42 foot cutter, the “Content”, fix her up and off they go. To Vigo (Voyager loves the great seafood there), Lisbon and Gibraltar . then off to the West Indies via Las Palmas. Finishing at New York looking pretty good. They took there time, which always makes for a good story.

Sought after sailing classic in first edition

$60.00

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Rahui – Colin Iles

Published by Reed , Wellington 1975 a first printing. Octavo, 194 pages endpaper maps, nicely illustrated. Very good near fine condition.

In 1969 Colin Iles decided to give it all up in England and move to New Zealand. To get there he bought the “Clarinda” although he had never sailed before. He took a mate of similar expertise and off they went across the Atlantic.

They took on a more cluey American in the west Indies and had a great time among the islands before heading off through the Panama. Then down through the Marquesas, Tahiti, Cook Islands and Tonga experiencing the beauty human and natural of those exotic islands.

In NZ Colin met Rahui a hula dancing nurse from the Cook Islands . they became a pair and went on a Honeymoon Cruise to Fiji, New Hebrides, Solomons, New Guinea and Cairns.

After all that they went to live in England. Rahui wanted to see Hadrian’s Wall and they settled in the Midlands where Colin managed Ruhui’s popular hula dancing act!

Life changing voyages – romance in the Pacific

$25.00

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Scott of the Antarctic – The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott’s Last Polar Expedition.

The Last Journals of Scott, the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, here published by Konecky.

Large octavo, 521 pages, endpaper maps. Very good condition in a complete and clean dust jacket. A very solid respectable book.

Nicely illustrated and an economic alternative to the valuable original edition.

Scott’s Last it’s all here …

$25.00

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The Platypus – Unusual Cigarette Cards by W.D. & H.O. Wills – c1910

Three cigarette cards from the “Animalloys”” series from the early 20th Century. An “un-natural” history series this being one of 16 animals all in three sections … the Platypus.

It is suggested that by mixing the sections you can produce a large number of strange creatures with amusing names.

I our case we only need the three to have our strange curiously named beauty!

Unusual, rather unique and rare Platypus image.

$20.00

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The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters – A 6,700 Mile Voyage Alone Across the Pacific – William Willis – 1955

Polar Castaways – The Ross Sea Party – McElrea and Harrowfield – First Edition 2004

Vagabonding Under Sail – Crealock – Sought After First Edition 1952

Rahui – Colin Iles

Scott of the Antarctic – The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott’s Last Polar Expedition.

The Platypus – Unusual Cigarette Cards by W.D. & H.O. Wills – c1910

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