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The Arabian Droll Tales – Translated by Carlo De Fornaro – Limited Numbered Edition 1929

Published by the Lotus Society, New York 1929. Number 461 of a limited edition of 550. A Zaidenberg illustrator.

Octavo, 200 pages, original half green cloth and exotic paper covered boards with original stylish paper label to spine. The beautiful paper has some rubbing as usual. Otherwise a very good clean example. Still uncut to a large degree.

The translator, Carlo De Fornaro (1871-1943), was quiet a character. He later described himself as artist, writer and revolutionary (he got well wrapped up in the politics of Mexico).

The Droll Tales consist of 13 classic semi-erotic tales from the east including; The Runaway Lover of Thaquif; The Perverse Dervish; The Blemished Virgin; The Dimpled Beauty and The Donkey Driver’s Mistress.

For those that are nervous … the tales are interesting, fun and rather mild really!

Lusty tales from Arabia – Presented Nicely

$80.00

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Raroia – Happy Island of the South Seas – Bengt Danielsson (Ex Kon Tiki expedition)

Published by Rand McNally, New York a first English language edition translated by F.H. Lyon. Octavo,304 pages with endpaper maps and many illustrations from photographs taken by the author or his wife. Dust jacket a little tired, internally very clean … a very good copy of a very hard to find book.

A scarce book. The author was part of the Kon-Tiki expedition. They were shipwrecked at Raroia which is a coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, to the east of Tahiti.

Danielsson and his wife returned there and spent a year and a half enjoying the relaxed lifestyle. A very funny account but there is tragedy in the death of a key character and the inevitable cyclone.

Perspective .. in 2012 the population of Raroia was 233, there is nowhere to stay so visitors are always invited to stay in the homes of maybe the friendliest people on earth!

Unusual Pacific account

PS … we have included in the images a chart of what the average Raroian gets up to during the week … compare your lifestyle .. Voyager Bill struggled to not put “went to Voyager” in every box! Book your tickets or maybe leave them alone!

$35.00

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Icebound in Antarctica – David Lewis and Mimi George

Published by Heinemann in Australia a first edition 1987. Octavo, 242 pages with many great colour photographs by Mimi George. Very good like new condition.

In 1982 David Lewis and his partner Mimi George and four others sailed to the Antarctic in the “Dick Smith Explorer” … it got tricky and they got well and truly stuck

Ice everywhere

$30.00

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Schooner Integrity – Frank Melville -1979

Published by Seafarers Books, London in 1979 a first printing. Octavo, 169 pages nicely illustrated with photographic images. Very good condition of quite a sought after book.

The Integrity was built near Slocum’s Spray at Dartmouth, New England. She sailed the Atlantic and back and through a strange chain of events ended up on the bottom at Turks Island. The author helped raise her and towed her to Cat Island. Here he recounts the full story.

Intriguing true maritime mystery.

$30.00

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Cape Horn to the Pacific – Raymond Rydell – 1952

Published by the University of California Press. A first edition 1952. Octavo, 213 pages, with map. Very good condition.

Subtitled the Rise and Decline of an Ocean Highway. A chronological progression regarding the “Horn” with a focus on a US perspective.. Magellan and Cook; the Old China Trade; Whaling; Missionaries; Navy; Forty-Niners; Clipper era etc

The Horn analysed …

$30.00

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Beyond Cape Horn – Charles Neider

Published by Sierra, San Francisco in 1980. First edition, octavo, 387 pages with enpaper maps and nice illustrations, mainly coloured photographic images. A little ageing to the dust jacket, overall very clean inside.

In the summer of 1977 Charles Neider made his third trip south of Cape Horn to the Antarctic visiting Ross Island, McMudo sound, Wright and Victoria valleys etc. Also the author intermingles Magellan and Drake and their passages around the Horn and Cook and others who sailed so close and Scoot and Amundsen and the tragedy and success.

Well beyond Cape Horn

$30.00

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The Arabian Droll Tales – Translated by Carlo De Fornaro – Limited Numbered Edition 1929

Raroia – Happy Island of the South Seas – Bengt Danielsson (Ex Kon Tiki expedition)

Icebound in Antarctica – David Lewis and Mimi George

Schooner Integrity – Frank Melville -1979

Cape Horn to the Pacific – Raymond Rydell – 1952

Beyond Cape Horn – Charles Neider

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