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  • Come Aboard – Eric Hiscock – First Edition 1978

    Come Aboard – Eric Hiscock – First Edition 1978

    Published by Oxford University Press a first edition 1978. Octavo, 237 pages with 43 coloured photographs by the Hiscock’s and seven charts. Very good near fine condition.

    In 1976, Eric Hiscock and his wife set off on their third circumnavigation of the world.

    They traveled west from New Zealand in the jib-headed ketch Wanderer IV via the Durban to England, the Canaries and a stop off in the West Indies before through the Panama and across the Pacific taking in the Marquesas, Tahiti and Fiji.

    Nicely illustrated and with good technical dialogue.

    Fine sailing third time all the way

    $30.00

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  • Captain Cook – Alistair MacLean – First Edition 1972

    Captain Cook – Alistair MacLean – First Edition 1972

    Published by Collins, London in 1972 a first edition. Octavo, 192 pages, nicely illustrated with endpaper maps. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket …

    A best selling fiction author MacLean writes a riveting narrative for this factual book on Cook. Beautifully illustrated throughout and a well rounded approach to the whole of Cook’s exploits.

    Cook all Over … by MacLean

    $40.00

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

    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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  • Rahui – Colin Iles

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

    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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  • Polar Item – Scott Centenary (1912 – 2012) – Christie’s Sale

    Polar Item – Scott Centenary (1912 – 2012) – Christie’s Sale

    One of the collectable Christies/ Bonham Polar Sale Catalogues.

    Christies Travel, Science and Natural History Catalogue with a special emphasis on the Antarctic and the Scott Expeditions. Quarto, 60 pages illustrated to the expected impeccable standard.

    Some exceptional travel items catalogued with a good Australian and Pacific content. Includes forty pages of unique Antarctic items that will make any enthusiast salivate.

    Our favourites … Mawson’s specimen boxes, Shackleton’s sledge harness, letters from Apsley Cherry-Garrard to his mother (“I sleep under Bowers. It is going to be a very warm hut and we live very well here”), Ponting’s best photographs and Scott’s marching compass. Well we like it all really. We all missed the boat on this one!

    Unique Polar items and other travel delicacies

    $60.00

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