The Castaways of Disappointment Island BY H. Escott-Inman.
The Castaways of Disappointment Island BY H. Escott-Inman.
Publisher: Capper Press (1980), Christchurch. Limited Edition of 1,000 copies.
Very good hardback with jacket, binding firm, some minor compression to base of spine, no inscriptions, pages very good, minor marks, bookplate inside front board, small owner stamp to last end paper. Jacket has some light shelf-wear with fading to spine.
A novel, based on the true story of the Dundonald, a four masted barque which in 1906 departed Sydney Australia bound for England, taking a route south and east, to pass under New Zealand. Lost in a storm they ran aground on Disappointment Island, in the Auckland Island Group in the Subantarctic waters of the Southern Ocean, between New Zealand and Antarctica.
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