$140 FRANK HURLEY IN PAPUA, Photographs of the 1920-1923 Expeditions - Jim Spechts & John Fields, Robert Brown and Associates in association with Australian Museum Trust, Sydney, 1984,

FRANK HURLEY IN PAPUA, Photographs of the 1920-1923 Expeditions - Jim Spechts & John Fields, Robert Brown and Associates in association with Australian Museum Trust, Sydney, 1984, 190 page large format hardback VG+ in VG+ jacket, no inscriptions, full page B&W plates throughout, When Frank Hurley was lying under a lifeboat on Elephant Island in the Antarctic awaiting rescue by Ernest Shackleton after the Endurance saga all the men voted upon rescue to go somewhere 'hot'...New guinea won out. All were rescued but most went to WWI...as did Frank Hurley for the Australian Army corp in the Middle Esat. But in 1920 he led a series of air and shipboard ventures to remote parts of southern Papua together with anthropologists and pilots. His photographic work is astounding...a treasure...increasingly scarce book -$140

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FRANK HURLEY IN PAPUA, Photographs of the 1920-1923 Expeditions - Jim Spechts & John Fields, Robert Brown and Associates in association with Australian Museum Trust, Sydney, 1984, 190 page large format hardback VG+ in VG+ jacket, no inscriptions, full page B&W plates throughout, When Frank Hurley was lying under a lifeboat on Elephant Island in the Antarctic awaiting rescue by Ernest Shackleton after the Endurance saga all the men voted upon rescue to go somewhere 'hot'...New guinea won out. All were rescued but most went to WWI...as did Frank Hurley for the Australian Army corp in the Middle Esat. But in 1920 he led a series of air and shipboard ventures to remote parts of southern Papua together with anthropologists and pilots. His photographic work is astounding...a treasure...increasingly scarce book -$140