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Three voyages of a naturalist. Being an account of many little known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla" R.Y.S. - 1908

by Nicoll, M. J

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First edition. Witherby & Co. London. 1908. xxvi, 246pp. Frontispiece plate, 56 further plates, 4 sketch maps. Original cloth, faded and worn. Top edge gilt. Edges untrimmed. Foxing/browning to the endpapers. Some occasional spotting. Interesting signature to the ffep.: J. K. Maurice, Zupanje 20 May 1908. "We have had three voyages, in the course of which we have passed many southern seas, calling at various islands, and always adding to the store for the [British] Museum - thus sailing down the east coast of South America through the Straits of Magellan up to Valparaiso in Chili, we struck out west for an eight thousand mile run across the Southern Pacific Ocean, visiting islands new to us all, each more charming than the other, and so home after going round the world. Again we fitted out for ... the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico. How we again set forth for the wilder and less known Southern Indian Ocean... Vanderdecken ...Madagascar..." Crawford, from the Introduction. Michael John Nicoll (1880-1925) Ornithologist and author of the Handlist of the Birds of Egypt. He accompanied Lord Crawford on several voyages
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