Lot
971 
Pacific Ocean, Fahnestock South Sea Expedition Correspondence, 1939-40, ten letters and nine covers from Bruce and Mary Fahnstock to friend in N.Y.C.; with letters chronicling their journey through Canal Zone battling terrible storms, hunting wild boar and crocodiles on Perlas Islands, letter and cover from the Galapagos with "Mailed in the Barrel, Postoffice Bay, Charles Island" cachet on cover with interesting content regarding a stop at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, other letters from Samoa and Fiji with content regarding the natives, music, head-hunters, etc., letter and cover from Australia regarding the wreck of their schooner on the great barrier reef (which ended the expedition) and letters on the return home from Ardjasa, Kangean Island N.E.I. (Netherlands Indies), etc., Very Fine, a fascinating correspondence of this ill-fated expedition. Estimate $750 - 1,000.