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Features: Why did Von Kluck Swerve? - article by Lovat Fraser; Canadians care for their equine wounded; Heroic moments in the shell-stricken West; Vignettes from the Allies' advancing lines; Forward withe the French Troops in Flanders; Masks and faces between Aisne and Oise; Keeping their Pecker up - Queer yarns the Germans believe; Photos in sunny by-paths of war's clouded highway; Western Science in an Eastern Environment - British construction in Palestine; Bridging the Yser and well away beyond Ypres; A Pit in a Beetroot field - some grim experiences of a stretcher-bearer (article by Hamilton Fyfe); Turkish activity in Syria's ancient capital; Dames of the New Order of the British Empire; Alsace celebrates the day of her deliverance; Nets to enmesh the werewolves of the sea (6 photos); Germany preparing for the War after the War; Who's who in the Great War; Peaceful contrasts with the waste of war; The Northhamptons - one-page regimental article with photo. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Contents: The War By Land - article by F.A. McKenzie; With the Flag in France and Flanders - three photos; Four Photos of British Horse and Foot Moving to the Firing Line; With the Devoted workers of the R.A.M.C. - four photos; Boer and Briton unite against the Teuton - two photos; B.E. Africa contests Germany's place in the sun - three photos; King Albert's New Army in the Making - six photos; The Decisive Cruiser Action in the North Sea; The Blucher Before & After Meeting the Lion - Three photos; Centerfold illustration of the naval victory in the North Sea - Triumph of British Gunnery and Seamanship; Photos of Ships and Guns that made the Germans fly; The War by Sea - article by Commander Carlyon Bellairs; Five photos of Warlike Preparations in Peaceful Holland; Five photos of Belin in Wartime; Barget9wn-on-Seine - photos of war victims housed in barges; Religious duties amid the din of war - photos of troops from three nations and their religious observances; Photos of five elusive snipers; Photos of three war scenes in the Forest of Argonne; Photos of Domesticities near the Battle Line; Photos of Old Boys who will soon fight with New Armies; Names and photos of Britain's heroes and lost men. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. All pages present. A sound copy. Book
Feature Photos: An American Submarine Chaser; Hustling the Hun on the Hindenburg Line; Why Peaceful America Declared for War (one page article); America joins the champions of freedom; Horse, Foot and Artillery of the U.S. Army; The War Against Piracy; Typical Western Fighting Ships; Devastation - one page article by Max Pemberton; British Soldiers making friends in villages they free from Prussian Terror; Ousting the Turk from the Holy Land - article; With Red Crescent through Arabia and Syria; The Middlesex Regiment - article. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; lvi, 316 pp, tinted map frontis, 3 other maps, facsimile of signature of Best, bibliog, index. original blind-stamped cloth, with gilt vignette on both covers, gilt lettering on spine, short tear at head of spine, else a fine clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Foster gives an extensive and detailed introduction which gives a good historical perspective of this voyage to India, Sumatra, Java, Malay, etc. This is the original edition of this work, there also being a reprint.
21 pages, including a full-page sketch map. Plus black and white plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a most amazing and compelling account of a fearless, treacherous, and seemingly unreasonably optimistic Pacific Ocean voyage of 101 days on a most precarious raft. Guided by the early Spanish records, supplemented by native Ecuadorian advice, the expedition members with Herman Watzinger as their architect, built a 40-foot replica of the old balsa raft, intended for the crossing of the magnificent Pacific Ocean, using balsa logs from the Ecuadorian jungle lashed together side by side with hemp rode, absolutely no metal fixings nor a single nail, and complete with a small thatched bamboo hut and two mangroves sails! The seaworthiness of the seemingly clumsy raft, which held Heyerdahl and five companions for a 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands, surpassed the boldest expectations. Upon their inconcievable return, Heyerdahl proudly reports that the buoyant logs rode the crest of breaking seas like rock. The use of rope instead of nails or pegs permitted independent movement between the separate pieces of wood and bamboo, and gave the craft an amazing toughness and resiliency at sea and on the reef. Whether the South Pacific water-span was ever bridged by preshistoric craft is a question by no means new to anthropology. The Polynesian race, its origin and its migrations have been the subject of more attention among scientists than any other living branch of the human family. Heyerdahl’s theory was that the original Polynesians had come by sea from South America, on rafts such as the one he and his companions built. The first voyage ended in failure after 47 days. The second voyage of 4300 miles and 101 days facing dangerous storms and all the elements of the sea, did in fact establish the feasability of his claim. They set out from Callao in Peru and ended with the wreck of the Kon-Tiki on a coral reef off Raroia in the Tuamoto Archipelago, part of French Polynesia. From the actual building of the raft to their crash landing on the island, the Kon-Tiki expedition has been hailed as one of the great scientific as well as maritime feats of all time! Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name. Kon-Tiki is also the name of the popular book that Heyerdahl wrote about his adventures. The book was a best-seller, and a documentary motion picture of the expedition won an Academy Award in 1951.
8vo. 8 pages, plus a full page map and photographic plates for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Well known mountain climber and painter of distinction, Alan Browne presents a most captivating comparison of New Zealand's Rotorua region, before and after the devastating volcanic eruption of 10 June 1886, a catastrophic event that would permanently alter the area's topography, and claim the lives of many Maoris. Drawing from local accounts of Auckland residents, as far as 140 miles away, Browne describes the tragic event with vivid eyewitness testimony. The region's entire forest was nearly destroyed, as was the area which at that time was uninhabited. Sadly, lives were taken, in the villages of Te Ariki and Moura about one hundred Maori people being buried under rock, ash, and mud. The event abruptly ended the long stretch of hundreds of years without volcanic eruption in the Tarawera mountain ranges. Browne includes interesting photographs and descriptions of the hot lakes in the series of craters that formed as a result of the eruption, Echo Crater and Frying-pan Lake being examples, concluding with a proposal for immediate establishment of a vulcanological observatory, its role particularly geared toward the prediction of future eruptions. An eruption of Waimangu in 1900, and others in 1904 and 1917 are further offered for evidence of continued volatility.
Volume Five: pp. vi, 568. Stamped ownership of Rev. William F. Kochel. Small 4to. Original full dark blue cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket worn. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. Kenneth Scott Latourette (1884-1968) was an American historian of China, Japan, and world Christianity. His formative experiences as Christian missionary and educator in early 20th century China shaped his life's work. Although he did not learn the Chinese language, he became known for his magisterial scholarly surveys of the history of world Christianity, the history of China, and of American relations with East Asia. - From Wiki RELIGION BOX 3
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Barbara Walton
119 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated in black and white. "...Brings the reader as close as we can come today to a leisurely tour of this beautifully situated, richly furnished village as it existed when it was first seen by non-Indian eyes." - from dust jacket. Very heavily-worn. Front hinge open. A worthy reading copy. Book
Title: The Tedi River District of Papua. Author: Leo Austen Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1923. Item is in Original Condition, with Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads! Notes & Condition: As early as six years prior to Charles Karius and Ivan Champion launching their famous 1926 expedition to cross New Guinea from the Fly to the Sepik, Australian army officer Leo Austen who would soon after become an anthropologist, led several pioneering patrols into the area. In 1922 he was placed in charge of an expedition to explore the country surrounding the Alice River [now known as the Ok Tedi River]. His party included one other officer, a Malay interpreter, twelve armed Papuan natives, and thirty-five Papuan carriers. As he notes the river's navigability and other important geographical features, he also observes various people groups settled along the banks and slightly inland. The Yonggom people and their customs are described at length. Piercing and tattooing, specific superstitions, confessions of cannibalism, fire making practices, cooking on hot stones, plaited fibre and sago leaf skirts for loin cloths, raised dwellings made of dirt and sago leafs with woven rattan doorways and constructed on posts or stilts, principal food staples, the use of long bamboo sticks for preserving water, and European influenced tobacco smoking, are some of the topics discussed in an unbiased manner. Both informative and engaging, Austen's firsthand account of a survey of the Ok Tedi District, formerly known as Alice River, describes a natural paradise, as it was in its virgin, undamaged state, three decades before Kennecott discovered the fabulous copper and gold deposit at Mount Fubilan near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi. He also visited several villages at the foot of the Star Mountains. 8vo. 15 pages, plus a full page sketch map for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Leo Austen (1894-1956) was born Leopold Novak Augstein in Brisbane. He was working as a clerk when World War I began and immediately enlisted. He landed with the first troops at Gallipoli and served in France where he was wounded. He returned to Australia in 1918 as a lieutenant and, with his brothers, changed his Austrian surname to Austen to avoid the anti-German sentiment after the war. On 3 April 1919 he joined Hubert Murray’s Papuan Service as a temporary Patrol Officer based at Daru in the lonely Western Division. He went on to lead many great patrols, there and elsewhere. In 1926 a Chair of Anthropology had been set up at the University of Sydney, partly to train Cadet Patrol Officers of the then separate New Guinea Department of District Services. Hubert Murray allowed some of his officers, including Leo, to attend the lectures. Leo eventually obtained qualifications as an anthropologist and began a parallel career producing many learned monographs and a book on Papua. The 1930s saw a massive upheaval of traditional societies in Papua due to increased European influence. Leo sought to restore and maintain the traditional cohesion of those societies, and was particularly successful in encouraging the revival of the paramount luluais in his favourite haunts in the Trobriand Islands. Leo became part of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) during World War II and attended the major ANGAU conference in February 1944. Towards the end of the war he was the presiding magistrate at the trial of a number of local people accused of collaborating with the Japanese. Later he Leo obtained a position with Aboriginal Welfare in Casino New South Wales, and continued to advocate for aboriginal rights, in various ways, until his final days.
365 pages. A public health inspector spends twenty-five frustrating years trying to be of service to his community (Victoria, British Columbia). At fifty he resigns and goes in search of a more satisfying life. He finds it in tropical Northern Queensland. This is his story. It is a novel and an anthology. Essays, verses, short fiction, travel, observations, character sketches. It is the compellingly written, informative, enlightening, thought-provoking, always entertaining experience of a man with intelligence, wit, and humour. The reader will find that she/he is seeing himself and his own community, because this book is not just about a small Canadian city or one corner of the sunny South Pacific. Nor is it just about one man's escape from a frustrating job. It is a forthright assessment of a society in trouble by a man who has a wider view because he deliberately stepped outside. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Slightly rambling account of the Panama Canal area, Polynesia, the Pacific Ocean, etc. ; 8vo; 387 pages
Consists of two unpaginated parts bound in one cirlox-bound volume. Part 1 consists of 100 one-sided pages encompassing the textual component of the report, supplemented with occasional diagrams of roundhouse layouts and photocopies of photos. The report is divided into: Introduction; The Building, its Elements, Materials and Construction; Roundhouse Memorabilia; and Conclusions, plus a bibliography. The heart of the report lies in the Memorabilia section which provides historical and diagrammatic information about the roundhouses at North Bend, Revelstoke, Field, Cranbrook, Nelson, Trail, Penticton, Coquitlam, Vancouver, and Victoria. Part 2 consists of approximately 75 one-sided pages of black and white photocopied reproductions of photos of roundhouses from across British Columbia. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Presumably most, if not all, the roundhouses documented here have since been demolished, thus this report, prepared by students of the UBC School of Architecture, serves as an important historical and architectural record. Book
78 pages. "Reviews the taxonomy, distribution, migrations, definition of stocks, and life history of spiny dogfish as background to an historical account of its utilization in the Northeast Pacific." - from Abstract. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Photos include: The capture of the capital of Saar; Naval pictures from the Pacific Ocean; New pictures from the battle-line in Germany; Fighting in Mandalay; photos from the Russians; Coblenz (Koblenz) and Remagen; Massive captured German rail-mounted guns; The German citizen and the war; Iwo Jima conquest completed; The R.A.F. attack in Burma, Yugoslavia and Norway; Photos of the great 10-ton bombs of the R.A.F.; British scenes in field and shipyard; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
174 pages. Author's signature upon title page. An adventure mystery - and a tale of horror, a dark 'Kidnapped.' Set in the rich wilderness of the Oregon coastline of the early 1800s, James White's novel has skillfully interwoven fact and conjecture centered on one of the most enigmatic figures in northwestern lore - Jack Ramsay, or "Lamazee." Prior owner's details atop half-title page else unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
folio [30 x 22 cm]; xii, 237 pp, numerous illustrations and plates, mostly in color from early sources, detailed bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, pictorial endpapers, dj (not price clipped), fine and clean copy, unused and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A description of the discovery of the unique fauna such as the Kiwi, Moa, Takahe and the Tuatara beginning with the voyages of Captain Cook to the end of the Victorian era. Attractive illustrations include those of Parkinson, Forster, Lear, Gould, Wolf, Martyn, Keulemans and Donovan cover all aspects of animal, bird, marine and insect life.
folio [30 x 22 cm]; xii, 237 pp, numerous illustrations and plates, mostly in color, detailed bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, pictorial endpapers, dj, fine and clean copy, unused. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A description of the discovery of the unique fauna such as the Kiwi, Moa, Takahe and the Tuatara beginning with the voyages of Captain Cook to the end of the Victorian era. Attractive illustrations include those of Parkinson, Forster, Lear, Gould, Wolf, Martyn, Keulemans and Donovan cover all aspects of animal, bird, marine and insect life.
790 pages. Bibliography. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "Outlines the main trends in the past, present and possible futures of the diverse and stimulating societies of the world's most scattered region." - from Preface. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
Sidney, W.E. Smith Limited, s. a. (1974). Folio cuadrado; 95 pp. sin numerar, con gran cantidad de fotografías de Max Dupain, editado en la Navidad de 1974 por el Council of the City of Sidney. Ejemplar dedicado por un miembro de dicho Consejo a un visitante. Encuadernación original en cartoné impreso, fatigada.
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; 239 pp, text illustrations from drwgs, numerous color illustrations from photos on plates, map endpapers showing route. original cloth, dj (not clipped), small remainder mark on lower edge of text block, fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author travelled from Oman on the Arabian Sea in a ship similar to those used 1,000 years ago in an attempt to follow Sinbad's voyages from "A Thousand and One Nights". He travelled to India, Sri Lanka and across the Indian Ocean to Sumatra and the Malacca Straits to the China Seas to Canton in a boat that was a replica of an Arab sailing ship that was used a thousand years ago. It is one of the most remarkable sailing stories of the twentieth century. This copy includes a copy of the author's article in National Geographic (July 1982), 'In the Wake of Sinbad', a 40 page article with many colored photos, map, and is complementary to the book. Its included as part of the entire issue of the National Geographic for that month.
Spine and endpapers a bit browned. ; The author describes this story as part novel, part travel journal, and part autobiography; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 296 pages
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 3 plates and double-page coloured map in the text, wanting front free endpaper; grey pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in red, white and black, gilt back, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Juvenile novel based on the disappearance of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. VERY SCARCE. Muir, 2438, McLaren, 11415
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cassell's 'History of Warfare' series under the general editorship of John Keegan.
132 pages. Short Stories: Compromise Courtship; Doctor's Gamble; Hand-Me-Down Bride; The Meanest Kid in Town. Articles: Our Ordeal over the Pacific - Maj. Samuel W. Tyson nurses a crippled C-97 transport 1000 miles ; Theyd Rather Dance Than Eat - the Roseland at Broadway; The Woes of West Coast Football - the scandal-ridden Pacific Coast Conference; Out of My Past (part 4 of 5) - George Raft; The Negro in the North (part 1 of 2) - predictions of desegregation-related social upheaval; Struggle for Power In Indonesia; We Run a Nursing Home. Serials: Trouble at Midas Creek (part 2 of 7); Violent City (conclusion). Ads: Kelvinator and GE appliances; Chanse & Sanborn coffee; United Aircraft Corporation;Campbell's Soup; Euclid excavating equipment; GE TVs; Arvin transistor radios and radiant heaters; Wheeling Metal Products; Nice 7-Up ad features young drummer; Lucky Strike (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
