[Rarebooks] FS: Lord Moyne: Walkabout

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Moyne, Walter Edward Guinness, Baron (Lord). WALKABOUT. A JOURNEY IN 
LANDS BETWEEN THE  PACIFIC & INDIAN OCEANS. Broughton, Lady, photos. 
London: William Heinemann, 1936. xxvi, 366 pp. Illus. with 97 b/w 
plates + photos and drawings. 8vo. Quarter cloth over decorated paper 
covered boards, illustrated end papers. First edition.

The story of travel around the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans 
on the Rosaura which had as its main objectives the collection of 
ethnographical material for the British museum and live animals for 
the Zoo. Later Moyne would become the British Minister Resident in 
the  Middle East and would be assassinated by the Jewish underground 
group Lehi in 1944. Covers  Dutch New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, 
Philippines, Southeast Asia, Queensland, New Britain,  the Ramu 
River, Palau, Manila, Zambales, Canton, Tonkin, Annam, Cambodia, 
Borneo, Brunei, Malaya, Nicobar Islands, Adaman Islands, and more. A 
near fine copy with faint rubbing at  extremities.    [28555] $100.00


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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
Phone: 518-589-0555.
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