The Castaways of Disappointment Island. Limited Edition 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 ends of spine, minor marks, gift inscription to ffep, pages very good, a little foxing to edges. Jacket has some marks, creasing and chipping 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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