Adventurers”
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“Whalemen Adventurers”
Pacific collectors will learn with interest about a new issue of W. J. Dakin's “Whalemen Adventurers”.
This account of whaling in Australia and Southern seas, first published in 1934, revised in 1938, and long out of print, is now available in Sirius Books, which is a library of worthwhile Australian titles published by Angus and Robertson Ltd. Each title is printed simultaneously in paperback and cloth bound editions.
The welcome new edition of “Whalemen Adventurers” carries a foreword about recent whal ing conditions by Dr. R. G.
Chittleborough, senior research officer in the CSIRO’s division of fisheries. Dr. Chittleborough points out that although a variety of books on whaling have appeared since the late Professor Dakin's book was published, his is still the only one surveying the history of Australian whaling and tracing the role of whaling from the country’s colonial infancy. Dr. Chittleborough's foreword, bringing as it does, the whaling picture up to date, is a valuable addition.
(Whal E M E N Adventurers.
Sirius Books, by Angus and Robert son. 27/6 (hard cover), 17/6 (paper back.)