Wreck of the Sydney Cove
by Jeffreys, Max
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1864363029
- ISBN 13
- 9781864363029
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Frenchs Forest, NSW: New Holland Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. 1864363029 . Previous owner's inscription blacked out. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xiv, 257, [1 (blank)] pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 229 x 167mm. "The epic story of the shipwrecked crew and their heroic journey from Preservation Island to Port Jackson in 1797." - from front cover. "Based on the diary kept by one of the survivors, this is an account of the sinking of the Sydney Cove in 1797. The book details the sinking and tells of the following 400-mile trek to Port Jackson, which represented the first over-land expedition by Europeans across Australia." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24418
- Title
- Wreck of the Sydney Cove
- Author
- Jeffreys, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1864363029
- ISBN 13
- 9781864363029
- Publisher
- New Holland Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Frenchs Forest, NSW
- Date Published
- (1997)
- Keywords
- 1864363029
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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