The Rattlesnake : a voyage of discovery to the Coral Sea / Jordan Goodman
2005, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #472934
ISBN: 0571210732
Physical description; x, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; London, 1846 -- Portsmouth, 1846 -- A taste of the tropics: Madeira and Rio de Janeiro, 1847 -- The bullion run: Cape colony and Mauritius, 1847 -- Australia Felix: Hobart, Sydney and Twofold Bay,1847 -- Not waltzes and polkas: The great and barrier reef, 1847 $ 1848 -- Edmund Kennedy and Cape York, 1848 -- The Cape, the Furnace and Cockroaches, 1848 & 1849 -- Tristes Tropiques: The Louisiade Archipelago and New Guinnea, 1849 -- A white woman and Darnley Island, 1845 & 1850 -- Death of a Captain: Sydney, 1850 -- Genting Home, 1850. Subjects; Stanley, Owen. Huxley, Thomas Henry 1825-1895. MacGillivray, William 1796-1852. Rattlesnake (Ship). Rattlesnake (Frigate). 1800-1899. 19th century. Topographical surveying Australia Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) History 19th century.
Price: €14.95