Macquarrie, Hector

Round the World in a Baby Austin [First edition]

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. First edition, octavo, original cloth boards with red borders, dustjacket, pp. 384, b/w frontis, b/w plates, b&w text illus, front endpapers map w/ red line tracing the journey. Dustjacket worn and rubbed, lacks approx. top third of its spine. Boards rubbed. Clean. Very good condition in good d.j., repaired and protected.

Account of travel around the world in a Baby Austin, beginning in May 1930: from New Zealand (interrupted by shipwreck) across the Pacific, through the United States, England, France, Italy, Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, India, Malaya, Northern Australia, and home to New Zealand again. Item #103364

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