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Captain Cook: Voyages Of Discovery
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age when maps held vast blank spaces and the ocean's edge was the boundary of the...
Badge Of Glory
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodSet against the turbulent backdrop of the mid-nineteenth century British Empire, Badge of Glory thrusts Captain Richard Blackwood and his...
The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew maritime legends captivate the imagination quite like the fatal final journey of Captain James Cook, and Hammond Innes brings that treacherous Pacific odyssey...
Mutiny!!: Aboard H.M. Armed Transport 'Bounty' In 1789
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most infamous episodes in naval history roars back to life in Mutiny!!: Aboard H.M. Armed Transport 'Bounty' in 1789, a gripping...
Search For Franklin: The Story Of One Of The Great Dramas Of Polar Exploration
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedIn the frozen grip of the Arctic, an entire Royal Navy expedition vanished without trace — and the desperate quest to find it became one...
A Navy For Australia
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the sun-drenched harbours of a newly federated nation to the smoke-filled battlegrounds of two world wars, A Navy for Australia chronicles...
Ships And Seamen: A Pictorial History From The Vikings To The Present Day
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the fearsome longships of the Viking Age to the iron-hulled leviathans of the modern era, Ships and Seamen: A Pictorial History...
Highways Of Water: How Shipping On The Lakes Shaped Gippsland
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before roads and railways stitched together the remote wilderness of Victoria's Gippsland region, it was water —...
The Secrets of HMS Dasher
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Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era,...
The Story of the Unsinkable Titanic
2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic, then the largest and most luxurious passenger liner the world had ever seen. Here is the complete story of...
The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk By a Whale
The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick's monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship...
Southey on Nelson: The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD A radical new series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece,...
Naval Battles of the First World War
With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at...
Of Nautilus And Eagles: History Of The Royal Australian Navy
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the first naval shots fired in the Pacific during the Great War to the ferocious sea battles of World War II, Of...
Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn one of the most viscerally honest accounts of maritime life ever committed to paper, Two Years Before the Mast chronicles Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s harrowing...
Rebel Down Under: When The 'shenandoah' Shook Melbourne, 1865
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the summer of 1865, the Confederate commerce raider CSS...
One Of Our Warships
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the quarterdeck to the engine room, One of Our Warships immerses the reader in the tightly-knit world of a Royal Navy vessel, chronicling...
Up Periscope
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Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the silent, crushing depths of...
The Loss Of The Royal George
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1782, one of Britain's mightiest warships heeled without warning and sank at anchor in Portsmouth Harbour — taking with her...
Nelson
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in British history command the sea of myth and reverence that surrounds Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, and...
The Life And Times Of Lord Mountbatten
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British history cut as dramatic a silhouette as Louis Mountbatten — naval commander, Supreme Allied Commander...
The Admiral's Wife: Mrs Phillip Parker King; A Selection Of Letters 1817-56
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Admiral's Wife opens a rare and intimate window into the life of Mrs Phillip Parker King, the...
Setting Sails: A Tribute To The Chinese Junk
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew vessels in human history carry the romantic and functional legacy of the Chinese junk — a ship that conquered the vast Pacific centuries...
The Royal Australian Navy: Historic Naval Events Year By Year
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the first fleet of ironclads to the modern nuclear age, The Royal Australian Navy: Historic Naval Events Year by...
The Wind Is Free: A History Of The Royal Geelong Yacht Club
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the sparkling waters of Corio Bay in Victoria, Australia, The Wind is Free: A History of The Royal Geelong Yacht Club chronicles...
Opening The Oceans
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before satellites and GPS, brave navigators charted the world's vast, unforgiving oceans armed with nothing but ingenuity, courage, and crude instruments — and...
Wings Over The Sea: A History Of Naval Aviation
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the earliest experiments with floatplanes and flying boats to the jet-powered carrier operations of the Cold War era, Wings Over the...
The Royal Australian Navy: An Illustrated History
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-drenched shores of Sydney Harbour to the treacherous waters of the Coral Sea and beyond, The Royal Australian Navy: An Illustrated History...
Sail In The South: The Great Days Of Sail Around Australia And New Zealand
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the age of sail, the Southern Ocean roared with the white canvas of magnificent tall ships threading their way through the...
Running the Gauntlet: How Three Great Liners Carried a Million Men to
Between the entry of the US and the end of the Second World War in Europe, the three huge Cunard liners Aquitania, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth carried a million...
The Shame of Savo: Anatomy of a Naval Disaster
For more than half a century, an air of innuendo, accusation and mystery has surrounded the Battle of Savo Island, fought off the southern Solomon Islands during the early morning...
A Brief History of Fighting Ships
This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line -...
Bywater
It is widely believed that Japan's opening gambit in World War II was conceived by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Japan. However, this book sets out to show that it...
The Captain
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingThe high seas have never been more treacherous than in the world conjured by Alexei Novikov-Priboi in...
This Peculiar Colony
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the late eighteenth century, a ragged fleet of British ships deposited a cast of convicts, marines, and administrators onto the sun-scorched shores of...
The Bells Of Sunda Strait
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dark, desperate hours of February 1942, the Sunda Strait became the grave of some of the most gallant...
The Armada
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the summer of 1588, the fate of Protestant Europe hung by a...
Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts (SIGNED)
$65.00 AUD
Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhen Ernest Shackleton's name is invoked, history remembers the man at the centre of the storm — but Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts...
The Goodwin Sands
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stretches of sea have claimed as many ships — and as many lives — as the treacherous Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile...
Reported Safe Arrival: The Journal Of A Voyage To Port "X"
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the grand tradition of wartime voyage narratives, Reported Safe Arrival: The Journal of a Voyage to Port X chronicles a gripping seafaring journey...
The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus': Also Typhoon And The Shadow Line
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJoseph Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' stands as one of the most viscerally powerful sea...
The Flying Sailor
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew memoirs capture the intersection of sky and sea with such electrifying clarity as The Flying Sailor, the remarkable autobiography...
Australia Under Siege: Japanese Submarine Raiders 1942
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the darkest days of World War II, the waters surrounding Australia became a battleground as...
Pictorial History Of The Fleet Air Arm
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched decks of aircraft carriers to the freezing Arctic convoys, Pictorial History of the Fleet Air Arm chronicles the dramatic story of...
Royal Australian Navy 1942-1945
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the crucible of the Pacific War, the Royal Australian Navy faced its most gruelling and defining years — and G. Hermon...
A Log Of Great Australian Ships
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the sun-drenched harbours of Sydney to the wild southern swells of the Bass Strait, A Log of Great Australian...