Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land | Harry O'May | c.1950s [USED – HCDJ – Good]

Two of Harry O'May's histories of Tasmanian maritime life bound together in one volume — Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town and Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land.

O'May was one of the most diligent historians of Hobart's seafaring past — he documented the ships, the masters, the trades and the men of the Derwent and the southern seas in a series of books published from the 1940s to the 1960s. His work drew on primary sources, shipbuilding records, newspaper archives and personal knowledge of the maritime community to document a world that was already largely gone by the time he was writing.

Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town covers the small trading vessels — the ketches, schooners and cutters that worked the Derwent, the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and the coastal trade of Van Diemen's Land. Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land covers the whaling industry that made Hobart one of the most important whaling ports in the Southern Hemisphere during the mid-19th century.

Published in the 1950s and long out of print. O'May's books are increasingly scarce and this two-in-one volume is a useful introduction to both aspects of his maritime documentation.

BOOK DETAILS

• Hardcover with dust jacket.
• Two works in one volume.
• Published c.1950s. Out of print.

CONDITION

• Used but generally good condition for its age.
• Pages tanned with some tan marks.
• Sticky tape marks inside covers.
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