To the Isles of Spice

A Vagabond Voyage by Air from Botany Bay to Darwin, Bathurst Island, Timor, java, Borneo, Celebes and French Indo-China

by Frank Clune

Angus and Robertson, 1944, [First Edition], photographic frontispiece, illustrated endpapers (maps), black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription on reverse frontispiece, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, closed tears, chipping and small tears (see photographs)

“Frank Clune visits an opium den – nearly chokes himself when he becomes an addict for five minutes; he watches the peroration of the betel-nut for chewing – then tries a plug; he visits the famous aeroplane experiment station at Bandoeng, makes a trip to the stratosphere – and faints before he reaches thirty thousand feet; he attends a chief’s funeral in the wilds of Celebes – and makes a quite unintentional contribution to the ceremonial that upsets the gravity of all.  And so on.”

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