EREBUS: The Story of a Ship. by PALIN**, MICHAEL:
by PALIN**, MICHAEL:
EREBUS: The Story of a Ship.
by PALIN**, MICHAEL:
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Chris Wormell,illustrated front panel wih white+bronze gilt lettering,rear panel with author's colour portrait photograph; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain orange cloth bds with bright,crisp,white ink printed letters to spine/ backstrip,a blue/green headband and pale blue Erebus + Terror ships' plans,illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,xi-xivpp+1- 334pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,a prologue and 18 chapters+epilogue,a mixure of 19thC contemporary b/w+colour facsimile reproduction illustrations (the majority) and some modern colour photographs,in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp78/9 and pp2489 respectively,19thC contemporary b/w facsimile illustartion reproductions as chapter separator pages,8 b/w ship's journeys' maps interspersed throughout the text and the book, an appendix (Timeline),acknowledgements,picture acknowledgenents and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigraph (Joseph Conrad,'Heart of Dakness),a contents list/table with b/w engraving portrait of Joseph Dalton Hooker to it's reverse, and a double-page b/w schematic map of HMS Erebus's voyages with b/w photograph (sonar location of Erebus's wreck) to reverse.
In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic.It was broken at the stern and covered in a woolly coat of underwater vegetation.Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half.Its name was HMS Erebus.
Now Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globetrotter - brings this extraordinary ship back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic.He explores the intertwined careers of the men who shared its journeys: the dashing James Clark Ross who charted much of the 'Great Southern Barrier' and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there; and the troubled John Franklin,who at the age of sixty and after a chequered career,commanded the ship on its final,disastrous expedition.And he vividly recounts the experiences of the men who first stepped ashore on Antarctica's Victoria Land, and those who,just a few years later,froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice,as rescue missions desperately tried to reach them.
The result is a wonderfully evocative account of one of the most extraordinary adventures of the nineteenth century,as reimagined by a master explorer and storyteller. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
- Bookseller R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Illustrator illus with contemporary 19thC b/w+colour facsimile reproductions and modern colour photographs.
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- Edition UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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- ISBN 10 184794812X
- ISBN 13 9781847948120
- Publisher LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2018.
- Keywords q52.NAVAL/MILITARY.NAUTICAL.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 9781847948120.HMS Erebus_Royal Navy_Antarctic Exploration_Joseph Hooker.Royal Geographical Society_Kensington.HMS Erebus_John Franklin_Arctic expedition_loss.Books new.used,signed,rare.
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