Search Results: Authors starting with J from Barking Mad Books

MAWSON'S ANTARCTIC DIARIES, Edited by Fred and Eleanor Jacka, A Susan Hayes Book, Allen & Unwin, University of Adelaide, 1991 1st edn., hardback VG+ jacket, 414 pages, B&W and colour plates, maps, VG+ - truly a remarkable diary much of it written under extreme stress, an uncommon book, a nice clean copy. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

SPORT & WORK ON THE NEPAUL FRONTIER - Twelve years sporting reminiscences of an Indigo Planter, MAORI (James Inglis)Macmillan., London, 1878, original green cloth with original spine expertly relaid , gilt tiger on front, gilt titles on spine, minor staining on front, original endpapers, B&W etching plates, 450 page hardback, VG - more than just a hunting book - good cultural insight into life on India/Nepal borderlands. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

SHACKLETON'S EPIC - Tim Jarvis, ABC books, Sydney, 2013, 1st edn., VG 264 page hardback with VG jacket, the latest recreation voyage of the James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia...well done, nice story, good images both by Hurley and UK/Australian team members, period clothing worn on voyage and across SG - This copy signed by the author and expedition leader. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THROUGH TIBET TO EVEREST - Captain John Noel, Edward Arnold, London, 1st UK Edn, 2nd imp December 1927 (same format and binding as true 1st Edn), VG+, no jacket, original blue cloth with gilt titles, bright & fine, Noel, a major player (and official photographer) in the early British expeditions to Chomolungma's North ridge summarises the 1921, 22 and 24 expeditions. Scarce in this condition. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

HIMALAYAN JOURNALS - Sir Joseph HOOKER, Minerva Press, 1891, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains. Edited by G.T.Bettany.574 page VG hardback in original brown cloth binding, illustrated throughout, two fold-out maps in rear VG+ some foxing, THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

SOUTH POLAR TRAIL, Ernest Joyce, Duckworth London, 1st edn., 1929, VG+/crisp copy 220 page hardback in original blue cloth with facsimile of very scarce jacket - B&W plates, diagrams, This is the only first-hand narrative of the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Imperial Transantarctic Expedition. While Shackleton and his men in Endurance were trapped in the ice on the opposite side of the continent, the men of the Ross Sea party laboured to set depots from Hut Point to the Beardmore Glacier in anticipation of Shackleton's arrival from the Weddell Sea. Of the ten men of the party three died and it is a story almost unmentioned today. Scarce THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

A POSTAL HISTORY OF ROSS DEPENDENCY 1955-77, Mark Jurisich, Classic Publications, Christchurch, 2002, 185 large format softbound, profusely illustrated in B&W with stamp covers - quite a remarkable piece of research that is so much more of an historical document on Scott Base than just its Post Office and Ross Dep stamps - terrific and very hard to find. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED