Year Away. Wartime Coastwatching on the Auckland Islands, 1944.
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Year Away. Wartime Coastwatching on the Auckland Islands, 1944. (2002)
EN PB USISBN: 9780478222685 bzw. 0478222688, in Englisch, Department of Conservation, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Neuseeland, Shipping costs to: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookman Whanganui.
Department of Conservation, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. 250 x 180 mm. 153 pages. Illustrations. In late 1943 Auckland Museum zoologist - and, later, director - Graham Turbott sailed with three others for the sub-antarctic. Their home for the next year would be a hut hidden among the rata on the Auckland Islands. Nearly six decades later, Turbott's journal has been dusted off and published by the Department of Conservation. While looking out for the enemy, these coastwatchers also did meteorological and, weather permitting, surveying duties. The Auckland Islands' climate is notoriously bad; the outlook is invariably for wind and rain. Harsh conditions had erased almost all evidence of a failed settlement there in the 1850s, and in 1944 the men had other salutary reminders of the islands' dramatic past, with castaway huts and wreckage from old sailing ships still littering the shores. Turbott observed the island's rich animal and plant life, from nesting albatross and scavenging skua to beachmaster bull sea lions and giant herbs. And while these coastwatchers spotted no enemy ships, they came under constant attack - from blowflies. Turbott has compiled a valuable and fascinating record of Auckland Islands natural history and the human side of coping in the roaring forties. Year Away preserves the spirit of the coastwatcher's journal, updating and extending it to further our understanding of a unique environment.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookman Whanganui.
Department of Conservation, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. 250 x 180 mm. 153 pages. Illustrations. In late 1943 Auckland Museum zoologist - and, later, director - Graham Turbott sailed with three others for the sub-antarctic. Their home for the next year would be a hut hidden among the rata on the Auckland Islands. Nearly six decades later, Turbott's journal has been dusted off and published by the Department of Conservation. While looking out for the enemy, these coastwatchers also did meteorological and, weather permitting, surveying duties. The Auckland Islands' climate is notoriously bad; the outlook is invariably for wind and rain. Harsh conditions had erased almost all evidence of a failed settlement there in the 1850s, and in 1944 the men had other salutary reminders of the islands' dramatic past, with castaway huts and wreckage from old sailing ships still littering the shores. Turbott observed the island's rich animal and plant life, from nesting albatross and scavenging skua to beachmaster bull sea lions and giant herbs. And while these coastwatchers spotted no enemy ships, they came under constant attack - from blowflies. Turbott has compiled a valuable and fascinating record of Auckland Islands natural history and the human side of coping in the roaring forties. Year Away preserves the spirit of the coastwatcher's journal, updating and extending it to further our understanding of a unique environment.
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Year Away. Wartime Coastwatching on the Auckland Islands, 1944 (2002)
EN PB USISBN: 9780478222685 bzw. 0478222688, in Englisch, Department of Conservation, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Neuseeland, plus shipping, Shipping area: INT.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookman Whanganui, Whanganui, [RE:3].
Book, Soft cover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookman Whanganui, Whanganui, [RE:3].
Book, Soft cover.
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