Physical description

No dust cover. Book is bound in blue with the title and author in black on the front cover and the spine.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Bruce Thompson
VANISHED/ WHALER/ by/ ARTHUR CATHERALL/ Illustrated by S. Drigin/ THOMAS NELSON AND SONS LTD/ LONDON EDINBURGH PARIS MELBOURNE/ TORONTO AND NEW YORK
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS LTD/ Parkside Works Edinburgh 9/ 3 Henrietta Street London WC2/ 312 Flinders Street Melbourne C1/ 5 Parker's Buildings Burg Street Cape Town/ THOMAS NELSON AND SONS (CANADA) LTD/ 91-93 Wellington Street West Toronto 1/ THOMAS NELSON AND SONS/ 19 East 47th Street New York 17/ SOCIETE FRANCAISE D'EDITIONS NELSON/ 25 rue Henri Barbusse Paris Ve/ First published September 1939/ Reprinted 1953 (twice)
Stamp of the Marysville & District/ Historicall Society Inc/ P.O. Box 22/ Marysville 3779

Summary

Jim and his friend Nugget are air pilot and observer employed as scouts by a Norwegian whaling expedition. Sent out to find the Oslo, a whale-chaser which seems to be out of wireless touch with the parent ship, they find her all right, but deserted! Deserted in that desert of snow and ice the Antartic Circle. This is only the beginning of a great adventure, of plots and counter plots centered around a Spanish treasure-ship locked for three centuries in the ice.