1974, ISBN: 5a3d2f8a66ceabe000721df1ada6da1a

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Author: Phillip Law Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Item is in Original Condition, with Blue Wrappers - A… Mehr…

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Author: Phillip Law Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Item is in Original Condition, with Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads! Notes & Condition: With a chart tracking the course of the specially designed Australian ice-breaker ship called Kista Dan, and four remarkable photographic views, Phillip Law describes his difficult but successful mission - having establishing a completely functional station for future scientific work in the region of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. Resolute in his endeavour, Law and his modest team of twenty-four, battled fierce windstorms and deadly moving ice in 1953-1954, to erect "Mawson Station" which he named after Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson. Established in 1954 in Holme Bay, Mac Robertson Land, Mawson is Australia's oldest Antarctic station and the oldest continuously inhabited Antarctic station south of the Antarctic Circle. On 13 February 1954 the party led by Law raised the Australian flag on the rocky shore of Horseshoe Harbour. In the first year a 10 Australians spent winter in cramped but adequate accommodation under the leadership of Robert Dovers. By the end of the year, they had erected the living quarters, a works hut, a carpenter's shop, an engine shed, two store houses. 8vo. 12 pages including sketch maps, plus photographic plates for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Excerpt from the text: "The Kista Dan, under the command of Captain H. C. Petersen, arrived at Melbourne on 11 December 1953... the ship loaded stores and supplies for both Heard Island and Antarctica..." "Three 'weasels' were taken... two living caravans to be towed behind the weasels which were fitted with insulated cabins. Five huts were landed... to provide sleeping, messing and cooking quarters, and one specially designed... to serve as radio, meteorological, survey and medical accommodation, and an engine house and two storehouses..." "Proceeding to the French Station at Port aux Français, Iles de Kerguelen, the Kista Dan took on 50 tons of gas-oil, 36 tons of water, petrol for weasels and aircraft, and diesel fuel for the Antarctic station..." "Early on Saturday, February 6, the wind rose and prevented any action... 60 knots and snowing... storm continued all day, causing great ice movements to port and astern of the ship... Kista Dan was immovably wedged." "The time until our departure, February 23, was employed on a variety of tasks. Three huts were completed... seals were killed and skinned for winter dog-food; gravity and magnetic observations, also an astronomical determination of position, were made at Mawson; geological and botanical specimens were collected; and philatelic mail, comprising 23,000 letters, were stamped." "Several emperor penguin skeletons were found at Mawson but no live emperor... There were no penguin rookeries at Mawson... but there was an Adélie penguin rookery on the island where Dover camped... where the Kista Dan first began to break into the fast-ice... a long line of thousands of Adélie penguins stretched... many of the chicks were dying from starvation..." "Mawson provided an ideal site for station..." End Excerpt. Today, Mawson Station houses approximately 20 personnel over winter and up to 60 in summer. It is the only Antarctic station to use wind generators for over 70% of its power needs, saving over 600,000 litres of diesel fuel per year. Some of the small pre-fabricated huts used in the first years remain on the station, but these are overshadowed by large steel-framed modular buildings dating from a major rebuilding program which started in the late 1970s. As intended by Law, it now serves as a base for scientific research programs, including an underground cosmic ray detector, various long-term meteorological, aeronomy and geomagnetic studies, as well as ongoing conservation biology studies, in particular of nearby Auster rookery, a breeding ground for emperor penguins and Adélie penguins. Phillip Garth Law AC, CBE, FAA (1912-2010) was an Australian scientist and explorer who served as director of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) from 1949 to 1966. He spent the first of many summers in Antarctica in 1947-48 as a senior research officer on ANARE, soon becoming director. He established bases in Mawson, Davis and Casey, and led expeditions that explored more than 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi) of coastline and some 1,000,000 square kilometres (390,000 sq mi) of territory. From 1966 to 1980 he chaired the Australian National Committee on Antarctic Research. He published many works on his exploration. Law's wife Nel became the first Australian woman in Antarctica when she visited Mawson in 1961. Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley. In the east, Mac. Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains. It was named by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) (1929-1931), under Sir Douglas Mawson, after Sir Macpherson Robertson of Melbourne, a patron of the expedition. Sir Macpherson Robertson had financed the joint British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-1931, which was led by the famous explorer Douglas Mawson. Mac. Robertson Land was named in his honour, and in 1932 Robertson received his knighthood for his philanthropic works, specific mention being given for his support of this expedition. . Very Good., Royal Geographical Society, 1954, 3, London, England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. iv, 264 pages. Abbreviations. Photographs. Diagrams. Technical information. The book is filled with photographs, diagrams, accounts and military reports. Correction sheet laid in indicating that Pages 107-116 have been duplicated as Pages 117-126. David John Fletcher MBE (born 1942) is a British military historian specializing in the history of armoured warfare, particularly that of the United Kingdom. He was an employee of The Tank Museum, Bovington from 1982 until December 2012, becoming the museum's longest serving member of staff. Earlier that year, he was a panellist on Operation Think Tank, an international symposium on tanks, held in California. He also presents contemporary media such as YouTube for the Tank Museum. avid Fletcher hosts a regular video series on The Tank Museum YouTube channel called 'Tank Chats', in which he gives viewers a brief insight in to a specific tank in the Museum's collection. In his final year at Bovington, he was appointed an MBE in the Queens New Year's honours list for services to the history of armoured warfare. This book may be divided roughly into four sections. The first is a brief introduction to the subject, that tries to explain some of the mystique surrounding this famous tank. The second is a selection of items that show the Allied reaction to the new tank from the time it was first noted by Military Intelligence until, in 1944, a fully operational sample machine arrived in Britain for extensive evaluation. Part three is a full copy of the actual report on this captured tank as issued by the School of Tank Technology and the Military College of Science in Britain. The final section deals with those aspects of the Tiger that came to light while the main report was being compiled. Excerpted from the Introduction. As an object of popular enthusiasm the tank stands in line a long way behind many other evocative machines. Railway engines, aircraft, motor cars and ships have devotees worldwide who are numbered in millions whereas armoured-fighting-vehicle enthusiasts probably do not exceed a few thousand. For all that some famous tanks have impressed themselves on the general public to the extent that they have become household names and, among these, the German heavy tank Tiger is probably best known of all. That its reputation is founded on the same sort of factors that give certain dangerous insects and reptiles an aura of fascination no doubt accounts, to a large extent, for this notoriety but it is probably the best-known tank of all. Naturally, for this very reason, it has been the subject of much serious study and, in all probability, more books have been devoted specifically to the Tiger than to any other type of tank; the jaded enthusiast might ask what on earth is the justification for yet another. The answer can only be that there is still something left to tell, and indeed there is., Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1986, 3, London: Putnam, 1974. Second Edition. Three volume set. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 567 pp + 560 pp + 636 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner bookplate in each volume; in Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jackets. Illustrated with numerous photographs and three-view drawings. Photographs provided upon request. Additonal postage required: $2 for domestic orders; varying for expedited and overseas orders. From Volume I dust jacket: This is the first of three volumes forming a definitive work of reference to the entire output of Britains civil aircraft industry (and of its amateur constructors) since the commencement of civil flying in 1919, presenting full details of types, ranging from single seat ultra lights to heavy jet transports, alphabetically by manufacturers and then in logical order of designation. It is an encyclopaedia of British civil aviation which describes 186 major aircraft types, gives specifications and photographs of all main variants, outlines their development and operational histories, recalls epic flights and famous pilots, and gives full production lists which include every aircraft built for export. Similarly arranged Appendixes illustrate and describe nearly 300 civil types built only in prototype form or in small numbers, over 150 military types flown with civil markings, and some 270 imported foreign types. Completeness of photographic coverage is such that of 49 types described, but not illustrated, construction of 26 was abandoned and 15 were structurally incomplete at the time of writing. A special 500 page Appendix gives the most complete documentation yet published on more than 16,500 individual British registered aircraft of over 1,000 different types, forming a fully illustrated British Civil Register (by types) which gives registrations, constructors numbers, dates of first flights and issue of C. of A.s, aircraft names, subsequent identities and fates. Chief changes of ownership, with dates, are also included for most Biritish-built aircraft., Putnam, 1974. Second Edition., 1974, 0<