The World of John Boultbee Including an Account of Sealing in Australia and New Zealand

Published by Whitcoulls (1979), Christchurch, 1979

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No signatures. Sprinkle of foxing to top page edges. No tears to dustjacket. Some fading to dustjacket spine. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 329 pages + 133 plates + 30 figures. Brown boards. Page dimensions: 235 x 146mm. "John Boultbee is probably a unique historical figure. He could be the only educated well-brought-up young Englishman ever to have worked as a common sealer among the ruffians usually employed to make up the small gangs left by the early sealing vessels on the islands of Bass Strait and on the southern coast of New Zealand [. . .] His account of his adventures, which he called Journal of a Rambler, was recently made available by the Boultbee family in England." - from dustjacket blurb. Contents: Introduction; The Old World; Van Diemen's Land; Preservation Island; King Island; Phillip Island; Return to Hobart Town; Interlude at Port Macquarie; The Hawkesbury Sealers; Sealing in Fiordland; The Maoris of Foveaux Strait; Stewart Island; The Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land; Bay Whaling; The Last Journeys; Appendices; References Cited; Acknowledgements; Index.; 8vo.

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Title
The World of John Boultbee Including an Account of Sealing in Australia and New Zealand
Author
Begg, A. Charles & Neil C. Begg
Publisher
Whitcoulls (1979), Christchurch
Publication year
1979
Condition
Near Fine
Dust jacket
Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.

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We are located in Dunedin, in the south of the South Island of New Zealand. We are a generalist rare and out-of-print bookseller, selling books in most subject areas. Our stock of over 8,000 titles has particular strengths in the areas of New Zealand history and literature, Maori, Tibet and Central Asia, Travel, Military, and Antiquarian. We are a member of ANZAAB (Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers) and ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers).

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