$NZ320 - PEARLS & SAVAGES - HURLEY

PEARLS & SAVAGES - Frank Hurley, Putnam's and sons, New York & London, 1st edn.,1924, 2nd imp 1925, large format VG+ original green cloth, classic B&W Hurley photographs, no foxing, no bumping to corners...about as fine a copy as you'll find. When huddled under the life boats on Elephant Island in 1916 after the sinking of Shackleton's Endurance all the men dreamed of going somewhere hot, specifically New Guinea...rescue and WW1 changed all that....but, later, Hurley, Shackleton's ( and Mawson's) superb photographer, carried out the dream, making two remarkable forays into the New Guinea highlands - $NZ320

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PEARLS & SAVAGES - Frank Hurley, Putnam's and sons, New York & London, 1st edn.,1924, 2nd imp 1925, large format VG+ original green cloth, classic B&W Hurley photographs, no foxing, no bumping to corners...about as fine a copy as you'll find. When huddled under the life boats on Elephant Island in 1916 after the sinking of Shackleton's Endurance all the men dreamed of going somewhere hot, specifically New Guinea...rescue and WW1 changed all that....but, later, Hurley, Shackleton's ( and Mawson's) superb photographer, carried out the dream, making two remarkable forays into the New Guinea highlands - $NZ320