Published in 2018 to mark the 175th anniversary of the Royal Society of Tasmania — the oldest scientific society in Australia and third oldest Royal Society in the world, founded in 1843 as the Botanical and Horticultural Society of Van Diemen's Land — this volume draws on the Society's Rare Book Collection, held at the University of Tasmania's Morris Miller Library, to trace Hobart's long connection to polar exploration. Visitors who passed through Hobart on their way to the ice included James Clark Ross, Dumont d'Urville, Carsten Borchgrevink, Douglas Mawson, Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, who telegraphed news of reaching the South Pole to the world from Hobart. The book also covers the search for Sir John Franklin, an earlier Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania who disappeared on his Arctic expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
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BOOK DETAILS
- Format: Hardcover
- Limited Edition Signed & Numbered 117 of 1000
- Published: 2018
- Pages: 256, indexed
- Illustrations: Colour and B&W
CONDITION
Used but generally good condition. Small dent to top edge of cover. Small spots on top outer edge of page block and front endpaper.
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