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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountabilty This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

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Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Used; Good. 97803167286839780571370825 ***Simply Brit*** Welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.

Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., 1894. Octavo, lettered wrappers (chipped and torn with loss to spine, repaired by an expert paper conservator), title page with silverfishing and loss, conserved with Japanese tissue, presentation inscription from the author's daughter to Alfred Rowan dated at Adelaide, 1907 (some loss to the inscription), pp. [vi], 42, (2 - blank); frontispiece portrait of the author, inscribed in pen in a later hand 'from the author's daughter', one full-page photogravure plate of the Forlorn Hope foundering in a storm by Scott Barry (Adelaide), one of the figures identified with a cross and inscribed 'J. P. Stow' underneath; old central crease, otherwise a good copy, clean throughout. Rare second edition of the Voyage of the Forlorn Hope, one of the greatest maritime narratives in Australian history. Stow's memoir describes his epic voyage in an open boat around the northwest coast of Australia from the fledgling settlement at Adam Bay at the mouth of the Adelaide River to Champion Bay, north of Geraldton. Having travelled from Adelaide to Adam Bay as a private agent for land purchases during the South Australian Government survey in the Top End in 1864-65, Jefferson Stow and a number of other men essentially found themselves stranded at the new settlement following the departure of most of the surveying party in the Bengal, which sailed for Adelaide via Koepang in May 1865. Together with surveyors Arthur R. Hamilton and William McMinn, Stowpurchased a small two-masted vessel (similar to a whaleboat) which had been one of the boats from the barque Bengal,with the daring plan to sail round to theCamden Harboursettlement in Western Australia. They intended to hug the coast as much as possible, since they had no chronometer and could not determine longitude. At Camden Harbour they would be able to replenish provisions and might, with any luck, intercept a Fremantle-bound ship. They recruited a crew of four other men for the dangerous voyage: sailors John White and James Davis, and labourers Francis Edwards and Charles Hake. (Note: both Hamilton and Hake had pioneered photography in the Top End, probably being the first men to use a camera in the region, and their precious photographic equipment was carried on board). The men named their tiny boat The Forlorn Hope, and set out in her from Adam Bay on 6 May 1865. The intrepid expedition managed to reach Camden Harbour on 29 May, just as their supplies ran out. The newly-established settlement there had proven to be a dismal failure, but the men were able to re-provison and to acquire a ship's compass which would help them navigate south to Champion Bay and the relative safety of the settlement of Geraldton, where they made landfall on 8 July. Hamilton and Hake remained at Geraldton to take photographs; the other fiveForlorn Hopeexpeditioners continued on to Fremantle by the barge Sea Bird, arriving there on 20 July. In Perth their reports of the settlements at Adam Bay and Champion Bay and of their epic voyage created much interest. The party then journeyed overland by mailcart toKing George Sound. Stow and at least two of his companions then departed from Albany for Adelaide on the Rangatira, which arrived at Port Adelaide on 11 August 1865. Stow's account was first printed in the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper between 21 August and 1 September 1865. (Stow joined the staff of that newspaper in the same year, and became its editor in 1876). It was first published separately on 21 September 1865. The 1894 edition is a longer and more detailed narrative, dedicated by Stow to his"dear comrades Arthur Hamilton and William McMinn". Ferguson 16311.

BROWNING, O[rville] H[ickman]. Massacre of Troops near Fort Phil. Kearney. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in Answer to a Resolution of the House of January 29, 1867, Relative to Indian Massacre of United States Troops near Fort Phil. Kearney. [Washington, DC: Government Printing Office], 1867. 39th Congress, 2d Session. Ex. Doc. No. 71. 17pp. Disbound, else near fine. The Secretary of Interior's report, with supporting documents, on the Fetterman massacre in which 3000 Sioux warriors killed three officers and 90 enlisted men near Fort Philip Kearney in the Dakota Territory.

Etat : New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 546.