batham guy (3 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 64 pages. Guy Muldoon "The Stronger Magic" / James Holledge "The Mad Marksman of Koiterangi" / Jorgen Bisch "I Climbed The Jivaros' Sacred Mountain" / Grenville Manton "Flight In A Flying Furnace" / P L N Padfield "We Sailed On All Fools'Day" / John Laffin "One Performance Only" / Reginald L Ottley "The Horse Was More Important" / Guy Batham "Jungle River Nightmare". (SL#257).

1959-1st ed., h/c+d/j, 192 pp, 21.5x14, d/j spine chipped, wear marks. Wonderful drifting adventures of a vagabond lifestyle, anecdotes, adventure as the author cruises the Pacific South seas. Tahiti, Cook Islands, P.N.G., Torres etc. Includes photos.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Edition. Ex libris bookplate, Frank G. Glen. Some small tears and chips at ends of dust-jacket spine and corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 191, [1] pages + 21 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. Travel, Pacific. "If you take the urge for adventure, mix it with the desire to sail across the Pacific Ocean, add a liberal handful of loveable islanders in their colourful villages on sun-kissed atolls, then peel off a good slice of wind-tossed ocean, shake it well round a thirty-four-foot yawl, mix the contents thoroughly and bake it in a tropical sun for about three months, you will then have the recipe for 'Drifting Around the South Seas." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Foreword; Introduction to the South Seas; Pacific Hurricane; Vision of Tahiti; The Tattooing of Jean; Shelldiving at Hikueru; Meeting with a Waterspout; Wild Pig Hunt; Shipwreck; Three Men and a Girl; Stowaway; A Cannibal Story; Mad Marco; A Maori Feast; Toss of a Coin; Pearling Adventures; The Shalimar's Treasure; Crocodile Shooting; Back to Civilization.