guy batham (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1959, Former owner's name, otherwise unmarked. Robert Hale. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 123 Seiten Ein Reisebericht über die Abenteuer und Erfahrungen des Autors Guy Batham in den Südseeinseln, illustriert mit Fotografien. Zustand: Einband mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, Seiten geringfügig gebräunt, insgesamt GUTER Zustand. HC1-707-1/8-00425926 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 434.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. xxiv, 129-194 pages. Features: Heroes of the Tractor Trails (with cover illustration) - photo-illustrated article on the men who blaze tractor trails across the frozen north to supply mines and the military; Full Ahead to Destruction - a ten million dollar smuggling operation in the Mediterranean - article with photos; Red Eyes of Evil - hunting a 15' crocodile on the Zambezi; The Temple of Snakes - five white men filming a documentary amongst the savage Arusi tribesmen find trouble; Murderers in my Kitchen - the author's two jungle workers were convicted murderers; Trapped in a Floating Tomb - an astonishing sea story from off the Prussian coast involving the "Aurora"; Tooth for a Tooth - a Scotish flyer creates trouble in the city of Kandy on Ceylon when he violates a sacred shrine; Squeeze to Freedom - the amazing escape of a British P.O.W. from a German train in WWII; Caught in a Whirlpool in the Vialala river in Eastern Papua - article with photos; Sports Day with the Veiled Warriors - the Oulliminden Tuaregs of the French Sudan - article with photos; Jungle Guinea Pigs - Sgt. Ken McConnell's Auster crashed in Malaya - his nightmare trip to safety; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); (illustrator). First Edition. xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.