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    Reference 3453 (1721)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Captain Raymond Rallier Du Baty
    Title 15,000 Miles in a Ketch
    Publishing Information London: T. Nelson & Sons, undated, c.1922
    Description Undated Edition, originally published in 1922, this edition is a pocket sized version, possibly later in the 1940s. 374 pages. Original covers, no dust jacket, contents clean. The Author describes the voyage of the J.B. Charcot, a small French fishing ketch which weighed 48 tons. The aim of this voyage was to chart the subantarctic Kerguelen Islands, which they funded by hunting southern elephant seals in the local area and selling their oil. They sailed across the South Atlantic, Antarctic and Indian seas to outside Melbourne Harbour in July 1909. The voyage totalled a distance of 15,000 miles.
    Price £20.00
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